Kindred Arts: Conversation and Public SpeakingMacmillan, 1929 - 200 Seiten |
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... reason detects error or fortifies the truth , in- congruity amuses and evokes witty sallies , and one experience encourages the recounting of another . Montaigne sums it up thus : " Accident has more title to anything that comes from me ...
... reason detects error or fortifies the truth , in- congruity amuses and evokes witty sallies , and one experience encourages the recounting of another . Montaigne sums it up thus : " Accident has more title to anything that comes from me ...
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Conversation and Public Speaking Henry Waters Taft. any reasonable standard , there is no reason to be discouraged about the art of conversation in America to - day . Our expansion in “ material well - being and economic security " has ...
Conversation and Public Speaking Henry Waters Taft. any reasonable standard , there is no reason to be discouraged about the art of conversation in America to - day . Our expansion in “ material well - being and economic security " has ...
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... reason that Demos- thenes , when asked what was the most im- portant thing in oratory , gave the palm to de- livery , and assigned it second and third places as well , until his questioners ceased to trouble him . We are , therefore ...
... reason that Demos- thenes , when asked what was the most im- portant thing in oratory , gave the palm to de- livery , and assigned it second and third places as well , until his questioners ceased to trouble him . We are , therefore ...
Inhalt
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS | 3 |
EFFECT OF SOCIAL CHANGES IN AMERICA | 10 |
OCCASIONS SUITED TO THE CULTIVATION | 20 |
Urheberrecht | |
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