Forensic Eloquence: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Oratory as Exemplified in Great Speeches of Famous Orators; a Manual for Teachers, Students and Public Speakers and for Use in High Schools and CollegesS. Carson Company, 1891 - 260 Seiten |
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... skill is displayed . I have endeavored to show that it comes from a well - trained mind , a noble purpose and a natural elocution . I believe a speech , like an edifice , should have a solid founda- tion , a substantial superstructure ...
... skill is displayed . I have endeavored to show that it comes from a well - trained mind , a noble purpose and a natural elocution . I believe a speech , like an edifice , should have a solid founda- tion , a substantial superstructure ...
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... skill , and elegance , and has no determined limits within which it can be confined . " The conditions favorable to its cultivation first claim attention . What state of society is suited to its growth ? The answer to this question ...
... skill , and elegance , and has no determined limits within which it can be confined . " The conditions favorable to its cultivation first claim attention . What state of society is suited to its growth ? The answer to this question ...
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... skill , exposing his insincerity with so much ingenuity , that Eschines , failing to secure a one - fifth vote in favor of his bill , was ban- ished from Athens , to which he never returned . This speech is greatly admired . It can be ...
... skill , exposing his insincerity with so much ingenuity , that Eschines , failing to secure a one - fifth vote in favor of his bill , was ban- ished from Athens , to which he never returned . This speech is greatly admired . It can be ...
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... skill to plant his batteries in commanding positions , and the fulminating power to use his missiles with destructive effect . He not only answered his antag- onist , he demolished him . He did not leave him a road by which to retreat ...
... skill to plant his batteries in commanding positions , and the fulminating power to use his missiles with destructive effect . He not only answered his antag- onist , he demolished him . He did not leave him a road by which to retreat ...
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... skill . The nation which ranks next to Greece in the eloquence of her orators is Rome . Her success , however , came long after that of Greece . When Demosthenes was rousing his countrymen against the machinations of Phillip , Rome was ...
... skill . The nation which ranks next to Greece in the eloquence of her orators is Rome . Her success , however , came long after that of Greece . When Demosthenes was rousing his countrymen against the machinations of Phillip , Rome was ...
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Abraham Lincoln action adversary advocate allusion American American Civil War American Revolutionary War answer argument audience Banquo Burke Cæsar cause character charge Cicero Clay Constitution contest course Ctesiphon Daniel Webster debate Demosthenes discussion doctrine Douglas Edmund Burke effect effort elegance eloquence England example excellence excited expression favor feel follow friends give hand Hayne hearers honorable gentleman honorable member illustration importance interest judges Julius Cæsar knowledge language liberty Lincoln Lord Chatham lords matter measures ment metaphor mind nation nature object occasion opponent oratory party passions patriotism person political Pompey popular possess prejudice principles public lands quence question REESE reply Revolution Robert Y Rome Senate sentiments skill slavery South Carolina speak speaker speech stand strong student territory thing thought Thucydides tion Union voice vote Warren Hastings Webster-Hayne debate words
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Seite 204 - Liberty first and Union afterwards, but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
Seite 78 - Of these the false Achitophel was first: A name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay: And o'er informed the tenement of clay.
Seite 138 - President, when the mariner has been tossed, for many days, in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Seite 117 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Seite 203 - I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the union, To see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Seite 79 - Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
Seite 102 - Do you imagine then, that it is the land tax act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply which gives you your army? or that it is the mutiny bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No ! surely no ! It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Seite 203 - I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below; nor could I regard him as a safe...
Seite 117 - He has visited all Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or...
Seite 208 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has subverted; whose properties he has destroyed; whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.