Kindred Arts: Conversation and Public SpeakingMacmillan, 1929 - 200 Seiten |
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... nature . Not a little of her power was due to her resort to bold artifices to incite vivacity in others . She did not hesitate to startle when torpor threatened . She sometimes even risked giving offence . But her perceptions were keen ...
... nature . Not a little of her power was due to her resort to bold artifices to incite vivacity in others . She did not hesitate to startle when torpor threatened . She sometimes even risked giving offence . But her perceptions were keen ...
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... nature and adds : " For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity , which is what we express by the word good breed- ing . For if we examine thoroughly the idea of what we call so , we shall find it to ...
... nature and adds : " For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity , which is what we express by the word good breed- ing . For if we examine thoroughly the idea of what we call so , we shall find it to ...
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... nature is weak and no man really thinks when he rises that he will speak at undue length . Having a thousand eyes to allure him And one will to bid him stop . Few things are so seductive as an oppor- tunity to speak in the presence of a ...
... nature is weak and no man really thinks when he rises that he will speak at undue length . Having a thousand eyes to allure him And one will to bid him stop . Few things are so seductive as an oppor- tunity to speak in the presence of a ...
Inhalt
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS | 3 |
EFFECT OF SOCIAL CHANGES IN AMERICA | 10 |
OCCASIONS SUITED TO THE CULTIVATION | 20 |
Urheberrecht | |
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