Kindred Arts: Conversation and Public SpeakingMacmillan, 1929 - 200 Seiten |
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... add to the enjoyment of all by using tact , subtlety , veiled authority , ingenuity and above all , good nature and good breeding , as genial weapons . When the conversation flags , or when it offends ... adds [ 40 ] KINDRED ARTS.
... add to the enjoyment of all by using tact , subtlety , veiled authority , ingenuity and above all , good nature and good breeding , as genial weapons . When the conversation flags , or when it offends ... adds [ 40 ] KINDRED ARTS.
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... adds that “ he should be a man who understands society ; for his duty is to preserve the friendly feelings which exist among the company at the time , and to increase them for the future by his use of the occasion . " He should relieve ...
... adds that “ he should be a man who understands society ; for his duty is to preserve the friendly feelings which exist among the company at the time , and to increase them for the future by his use of the occasion . " He should relieve ...
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... adds , " was he ac- customed to consider conversation as a con- test , and such was his notion of Burke as an opponent . " And when Boswell himself drove the doctor into a corner " he had recourse to some sudden mode of robust sophistry ...
... adds , " was he ac- customed to consider conversation as a con- test , and such was his notion of Burke as an opponent . " And when Boswell himself drove the doctor into a corner " he had recourse to some sudden mode of robust sophistry ...
Inhalt
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS | 3 |
EFFECT OF SOCIAL CHANGES IN AMERICA | 10 |
OCCASIONS SUITED TO THE CULTIVATION | 20 |
Urheberrecht | |
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