Principles of Public Speaking: Comprising the Techniques of Articulation, Phrasing, Emphasis; the Cure of Vocal Defects; the Elements of Gesture ... with Many Exercises, Forms, and Practice SelectionsG. P. Putnam's sons, 1899 - 465 pages |
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... united and blended into complex forms . These are open sounds or vowels , and closed sounds or consonants . To the eye they are represented by letters , and to the ear by tones . When sounded separately , they are produced by a single ...
... united and blended into complex forms . These are open sounds or vowels , and closed sounds or consonants . To the eye they are represented by letters , and to the ear by tones . When sounded separately , they are produced by a single ...
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... united for the reception and com- munication of happiness , should begin with the first glimpse of reason , and only end with life itself . " 2. - Negative sentences require Rising Inflection . Illustration . " The proposition is peace ...
... united for the reception and com- munication of happiness , should begin with the first glimpse of reason , and only end with life itself . " 2. - Negative sentences require Rising Inflection . Illustration . " The proposition is peace ...
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... United States Senate in behalf of the rights of South Carolina , could not have stood with knees bent forward , with shoulders stooping and with protruding chin . Such an attitude would have been one of weakness , and never could have ...
... United States Senate in behalf of the rights of South Carolina , could not have stood with knees bent forward , with shoulders stooping and with protruding chin . Such an attitude would have been one of weakness , and never could have ...
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... united all classes against the corruptions of the Church . He roused Scotland by the bold- ness of his utterances , and by sheer force of persua- siveness moved its Queen to tears . When old and stricken with disease he was forced to ...
... united all classes against the corruptions of the Church . He roused Scotland by the bold- ness of his utterances , and by sheer force of persua- siveness moved its Queen to tears . When old and stricken with disease he was forced to ...
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... United States from the beginning . As a people we have never been without capable and fearless men to voice the wrongs of oppression or American Eloquence . to defend the noble sentiments of patriotism and liberty . History of Oratory 153.
... United States from the beginning . As a people we have never been without capable and fearless men to voice the wrongs of oppression or American Eloquence . to defend the noble sentiments of patriotism and liberty . History of Oratory 153.
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Page 132 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 76 - Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
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Page 235 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God ; All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to His blood.
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