Kindred Arts: Conversation and Public SpeakingMacmillan, 1929 - 200 Seiten |
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... failed to vol- unteer or originate . If he had not been , as he was , a kindly man , it might have been sus- pected that he used silence by design and for a purpose described by Thoreau thus : " By a well directed silence I have some ...
... failed to vol- unteer or originate . If he had not been , as he was , a kindly man , it might have been sus- pected that he used silence by design and for a purpose described by Thoreau thus : " By a well directed silence I have some ...
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... failed to consider the importance of delivery . Though Burke was probably the greatest of all in grandeur , profundity and literary excellence , he made so little effort to study the effect of his speeches upon his im- mediate audience ...
... failed to consider the importance of delivery . Though Burke was probably the greatest of all in grandeur , profundity and literary excellence , he made so little effort to study the effect of his speeches upon his im- mediate audience ...
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Conversation and Public Speaking Henry Waters Taft. of his voice failed to conform to the conven- tions of the elocutionist . Phillips Brooks never stopped in his torrent of thought to think of dramatic utterance . And it is impossible ...
Conversation and Public Speaking Henry Waters Taft. of his voice failed to conform to the conven- tions of the elocutionist . Phillips Brooks never stopped in his torrent of thought to think of dramatic utterance . And it is impossible ...
Inhalt
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS | 3 |
EFFECT OF SOCIAL CHANGES IN AMERICA | 10 |
OCCASIONS SUITED TO THE CULTIVATION | 20 |
Urheberrecht | |
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