Practical Speaking: As Taught in Yale CollegeT.H. Pease, 1846 - 440 páginas |
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... graceful as the impulses from which they spring . From infancy onwards , the commerce of or- dinary life teaches us to talk . We learn to read by ex- pressing aloud the words which silently meet the eye , but in reading merely for our ...
... graceful as the impulses from which they spring . From infancy onwards , the commerce of or- dinary life teaches us to talk . We learn to read by ex- pressing aloud the words which silently meet the eye , but in reading merely for our ...
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... graceful , earnest , impres- sive , and in consequence of the union of these qualities , will be forcible and interesting . The only efficient modes of giving instruction in elocution , are similar in most respects to the methods ...
... graceful , earnest , impres- sive , and in consequence of the union of these qualities , will be forcible and interesting . The only efficient modes of giving instruction in elocution , are similar in most respects to the methods ...
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... graceful writing is executed without elaborate pains , and is the result of habits previously established . To establish hab- its , the lessons from which they are to proceed must not be in too quick succession . Six lessons given in as ...
... graceful writing is executed without elaborate pains , and is the result of habits previously established . To establish hab- its , the lessons from which they are to proceed must not be in too quick succession . Six lessons given in as ...
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... graceful . If a few unimportant faults in attitude or gesture accompany the first efforts in speaking , while at the same time the speaker is in general correct in these respects , they commonly proceed from the want of that perfect ...
... graceful . If a few unimportant faults in attitude or gesture accompany the first efforts in speaking , while at the same time the speaker is in general correct in these respects , they commonly proceed from the want of that perfect ...
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... graceful persons often exhibit ; and when such proceed from ease and compo- sure , they produce no ill effect . Ceremonious and submissive bows are also sometimes made by retreating instead of advancing . EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE OF ...
... graceful persons often exhibit ; and when such proceed from ease and compo- sure , they produce no ill effect . Ceremonious and submissive bows are also sometimes made by retreating instead of advancing . EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE OF ...
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Página 275 - ... Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Página 142 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Página 323 - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?
Página 317 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
Página 394 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments?
Página 301 - It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Página 322 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, most awful Form ! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity...
Página 71 - On, on, you noblest English, Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof, Fathers that like so many Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn till even fought, And sheathed their swords for lack of argument! Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war!
Página 372 - Advance, then, ye future generations! We would hail you, as you rise in your long succession, to fill the places which we now fill, and to taste the blessings of existence, where we are passing, and soon shall have passed, our own human duration. We bid you welcome to this pleasant land of the fathers.
Página 156 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.