Kindred Arts: Conversation and Public SpeakingMacmillan, 1929 - 200 Seiten |
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... society leaders , who earned her supremacy through intellectual vigor combined with a sympathetic 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 ...
... society leaders , who earned her supremacy through intellectual vigor combined with a sympathetic 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 ...
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... society or conversation can exist without good breeding based on good 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 ...
... society or conversation can exist without good breeding based on good 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 ...
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... society . It is not accidental that I have referred above to a " hostess " ; but I would not imply that a man may not be an ideal symposiarch . Even if social customs are in a state of flux , New- man's " gentleman " will still be found ...
... society . It is not accidental that I have referred above to a " hostess " ; but I would not imply that a man may not be an ideal symposiarch . Even if social customs are in a state of flux , New- man's " gentleman " will still be found ...
Inhalt
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS | 3 |
EFFECT OF SOCIAL CHANGES IN AMERICA | 10 |
OCCASIONS SUITED TO THE CULTIVATION | 20 |
Urheberrecht | |
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