The Making of an OratorG.P. Putnam's sons, 1906 - 361 من الصفحات |
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... Lord Lyndhurst once remarked to a friend : " Brougham says that he prepares the great pas- sages in his speeches ; and he weaves them with won- derful dexterity into the extempore portions . The seams are never visible . I am not able ...
... Lord Lyndhurst once remarked to a friend : " Brougham says that he prepares the great pas- sages in his speeches ; and he weaves them with won- derful dexterity into the extempore portions . The seams are never visible . I am not able ...
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... lord when he took possession of the room . In this second imaginary case the accused is ac- quitted , for the assumption of his innocence is stronger than the assumption of his guilt . In both cases the inquiry into the guilt or in ...
... lord when he took possession of the room . In this second imaginary case the accused is ac- quitted , for the assumption of his innocence is stronger than the assumption of his guilt . In both cases the inquiry into the guilt or in ...
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... edge of the water ; the speaker must take a " header " into his subject , and make himself instantly at home with his audience . Mr. Gladstone on being asked by Lord Coleridge if he had ever felt 104 The Making of an Orator.
... edge of the water ; the speaker must take a " header " into his subject , and make himself instantly at home with his audience . Mr. Gladstone on being asked by Lord Coleridge if he had ever felt 104 The Making of an Orator.
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John O'Connor Power. being asked by Lord Coleridge if he had ever felt nervous in public speaking , answered , " In opening a subject , often ; in reply , never . " Anyone who was acquainted with Mr. Glad- stone's temperament would be ...
John O'Connor Power. being asked by Lord Coleridge if he had ever felt nervous in public speaking , answered , " In opening a subject , often ; in reply , never . " Anyone who was acquainted with Mr. Glad- stone's temperament would be ...
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... Lords and the Commons ; the question whether government should be in the hands of the well educated few , persons of property , or the uneducated or ill - educated many , persons of no property . It is a subject full of historical and ...
... Lords and the Commons ; the question whether government should be in the hands of the well educated few , persons of property , or the uneducated or ill - educated many , persons of no property . It is a subject full of historical and ...
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الصفحة 127 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
الصفحة 260 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
الصفحة 237 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
الصفحة 123 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
الصفحة 123 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
الصفحة 237 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
الصفحة 299 - England that the eyes of the oppressed were always turned — to this favourite, this darling home of so much privilege and so much happiness, where the people that had built up a noble edifice for themselves would, it was well known, be ready to do what in them lay to secure the benefit of the same inestimable boon for others. You talk to me of the established tradition and policy in regard to Turkey.
الصفحة 122 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
الصفحة 120 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.