Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of LogicMcElrath and Barker, 1853 - 129 pages |
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... questions of his own ex- perience . Carlyle has said that a healthy man never asks himself such personal questions . But a thoughtful man does . Could the disembodied experience of men be presented to view , so that the conscious life ...
... questions of his own ex- perience . Carlyle has said that a healthy man never asks himself such personal questions . But a thoughtful man does . Could the disembodied experience of men be presented to view , so that the conscious life ...
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... question . Is it not an advantage when both are worthy ? The public may accept good advice from men who will not take it themselves . But is it not the object of a wise Rhetoric to increase the number of men who will take sound advice ...
... question . Is it not an advantage when both are worthy ? The public may accept good advice from men who will not take it themselves . But is it not the object of a wise Rhetoric to increase the number of men who will take sound advice ...
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... question to be decided is- What are the proper feelings of men ? To appeal to these must always be right . The conclusions arrived at through the medium of such feelings are as legitimate as conclusions arrived at by appeals wholly ...
... question to be decided is- What are the proper feelings of men ? To appeal to these must always be right . The conclusions arrived at through the medium of such feelings are as legitimate as conclusions arrived at by appeals wholly ...
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... question of the corn laws no one could divine - when , by a masterly turn of thought , he asked- " If poachers are so punished who take the rich man's bird , how ought peers to be punished who take the poor man's bread ? " The house ...
... question of the corn laws no one could divine - when , by a masterly turn of thought , he asked- " If poachers are so punished who take the rich man's bird , how ought peers to be punished who take the poor man's bread ? " The house ...
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... question , or with enforcing the single measure which it was his business and avowed pur- pose to enforce , —he diverged to a thousand collateral topics , -he demonstrated as many disputed propositions , he estab- lished principles in ...
... question , or with enforcing the single measure which it was his business and avowed pur- pose to enforce , —he diverged to a thousand collateral topics , -he demonstrated as many disputed propositions , he estab- lished principles in ...
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Page 129 - Mysterious Night! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And, lo! Creation widened in man's view.
Page 125 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Page 64 - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Page 125 - Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth and salutary woe ; Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, And Truth diffuse her radiance...
Page 126 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Page 64 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of mo're than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say.
Page 129 - Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun ? or who could find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? Why do we then shun Death with anxious strife ? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life ? " I would not slight this wondrous world.
Page 126 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 81 - Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking to reading ; a practice, of itself, sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart, that mankind can be very powerfully affected.
Page 54 - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.