Oratory and OratorsS.C. Griggs, 1878 - 448 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة vii
... ORATORY A LOST ART ? 30 CHAPTER III . 63 QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ORATOR , CHAPTER IV . QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ORATOR ( continued ) , CHAPTER V. - - 103 THE ORATOR'S TRIALS , 140 CHAPTER VI . THE ORATOR'S HELPS , 161 CHAPTER VII . THE TESTS ...
... ORATORY A LOST ART ? 30 CHAPTER III . 63 QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ORATOR , CHAPTER IV . QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ORATOR ( continued ) , CHAPTER V. - - 103 THE ORATOR'S TRIALS , 140 CHAPTER VI . THE ORATOR'S HELPS , 161 CHAPTER VII . THE TESTS ...
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... ORATORS : AMERICAN , 301 CHAPTER XII . FORENSIC ORATORS , 346 CHAPTER XIII . PULPIT ORATORS , 379 CHAPTER XIV . A PLEA FOR ORATORICAL CULTURE , 407 INDEX , · 447 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA . ORATORY AND ORATORS . CHAPTER viii CONTENTS ...
... ORATORS : AMERICAN , 301 CHAPTER XII . FORENSIC ORATORS , 346 CHAPTER XIII . PULPIT ORATORS , 379 CHAPTER XIV . A PLEA FOR ORATORICAL CULTURE , 407 INDEX , · 447 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA . ORATORY AND ORATORS . CHAPTER viii CONTENTS ...
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William Mathews. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA . ORATORY AND ORATORS . CHAPTER I. THE POWER AND INFLUENCE OF THE ORATOR . To estimate the degree in which the orator has influ- enced the world's history , would be a difficult task . It ...
William Mathews. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA . ORATORY AND ORATORS . CHAPTER I. THE POWER AND INFLUENCE OF THE ORATOR . To estimate the degree in which the orator has influ- enced the world's history , would be a difficult task . It ...
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... orator who had baffled him , - on hearing a report of one of his orations , - - " Had I been there , he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself . " We are told that such was the force of Cicero's oratory , that it not ...
... orator who had baffled him , - on hearing a report of one of his orations , - - " Had I been there , he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself . " We are told that such was the force of Cicero's oratory , that it not ...
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... orator of Massachusetts that sprang to its rescue . As the champion of New Eng- land closed the memorable peroration ... ORATORY AND ORATORS .
... orator of Massachusetts that sprang to its rescue . As the champion of New Eng- land closed the memorable peroration ... ORATORY AND ORATORS .
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الصفحة 383 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
الصفحة 119 - I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, 1 should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are honourable men : I will not do them wrong ; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honourable men.
الصفحة 106 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
الصفحة 157 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
الصفحة 19 - His peculiar phrases had that force of description that the original scene appeared to be, at that moment, acting before our eyes. We saw the very faces of the Jews: the staring, frightful distortions of malice and rage. We saw the buffet; my soul kindled with a flame of indignation; and my hands were involuntarily and convulsively clinched.
الصفحة 342 - The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging : the laboring masts seem straining from their base : the dismal sound of the pumps is heard : the ship leaps, as it •were, madly from billow to billow : the ocean breaks and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight, against the staggered vessel.
الصفحة 264 - ... this day — it is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man, and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they will reject with indignation the wild and guilty phantasy, that man can hold property in man...
الصفحة 285 - But let us not too much grieve, that you have met the common fate of men. You lived at least long enough to know that your work had been nobly and successfully accomplished.
الصفحة 373 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
الصفحة 264 - Tell me not of rights — talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves. I deny the right — I acknowledge not the property.