Kindred Arts: Conversation and Public SpeakingMacmillan, 1929 - 200 Seiten |
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... centuries on the subject of social converse , it ran athwart my lawyer's habit of respect for precedent . Among other things it ignored the classical essay of De Quincey and the treatise of Professor Mahaffy on " The Art of Conver ...
... centuries on the subject of social converse , it ran athwart my lawyer's habit of respect for precedent . Among other things it ignored the classical essay of De Quincey and the treatise of Professor Mahaffy on " The Art of Conver ...
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... Century . In the brilliance of its purely social aspect , the Salon owes some- thing to the causerie of the Seventeenth Cen- tury , which sought to cultivate the taste for " chatting . " But the Salon which flourished in the next century ...
... Century . In the brilliance of its purely social aspect , the Salon owes some- thing to the causerie of the Seventeenth Cen- tury , which sought to cultivate the taste for " chatting . " But the Salon which flourished in the next century ...
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... centuries been synonymous with oratory or eloquence . It now teaches the art of lucid , elegant and forceful language , and is not associated SO much with elocution or eloquence as with written expression . But the rules of rhetoric and ...
... centuries been synonymous with oratory or eloquence . It now teaches the art of lucid , elegant and forceful language , and is not associated SO much with elocution or eloquence as with written expression . But the rules of rhetoric and ...
Inhalt
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS | 3 |
EFFECT OF SOCIAL CHANGES IN AMERICA | 10 |
OCCASIONS SUITED TO THE CULTIVATION | 20 |
Urheberrecht | |
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