Kindred Arts: Conversation and Public SpeakingMacmillan, 1929 - 200 Seiten |
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... opportunity for good conversa- tion . To a dweller in a great metropolis it is hard to convey the charm and comfort of these informal exchanges in an atmosphere of social solidarity and common sympathies where emulation stimulates ...
... opportunity for good conversa- tion . To a dweller in a great metropolis it is hard to convey the charm and comfort of these informal exchanges in an atmosphere of social solidarity and common sympathies where emulation stimulates ...
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... opportunity for sociability , the reticent must yield to the subtle enchantment , and the aus- tere become affable and complaisant . Those without social initiative will find themselves unwittingly but pleasingly drawn into the dis ...
... opportunity for sociability , the reticent must yield to the subtle enchantment , and the aus- tere become affable and complaisant . Those without social initiative will find themselves unwittingly but pleasingly drawn into the dis ...
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... opportunity for Demosthenes ' sub- limity and nervous force comes in his in- tensity and violent emotion and in passages where he has utterly to dumbfounder the audience , whereas diffuseness is in place when you want to overwhelm them ...
... opportunity for Demosthenes ' sub- limity and nervous force comes in his in- tensity and violent emotion and in passages where he has utterly to dumbfounder the audience , whereas diffuseness is in place when you want to overwhelm them ...
Inhalt
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS | 3 |
EFFECT OF SOCIAL CHANGES IN AMERICA | 10 |
OCCASIONS SUITED TO THE CULTIVATION | 20 |
Urheberrecht | |
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