The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 страници |
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... liberty , in the manner of speaking , is recommended , yet the opposite extreme is to be carefully avoided . There are multitudes of public characters who , under the pretext of being swayed by their passions , sink into the most absurd ...
... liberty , in the manner of speaking , is recommended , yet the opposite extreme is to be carefully avoided . There are multitudes of public characters who , under the pretext of being swayed by their passions , sink into the most absurd ...
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... liberty with due restraints upon his attitudes and gestures , and confer upon him the dignity and the lustre of real , exalted , and commanding eloquence . The following Rules are extracted from WALKER'S Speaker : RULE I. Let your ...
... liberty with due restraints upon his attitudes and gestures , and confer upon him the dignity and the lustre of real , exalted , and commanding eloquence . The following Rules are extracted from WALKER'S Speaker : RULE I. Let your ...
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... liberty to follow his own understanding and feelings . The most common faults respecting emphasis are laying so strong an emphasis on one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally ...
... liberty to follow his own understanding and feelings . The most common faults respecting emphasis are laying so strong an emphasis on one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally ...
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... liberty , calls loudly for the interposition of this government . To those better acquainted with the facts in relation to it , I leave it to fill up the picture . My mind is irresistibly drawn to the west . Although others may not ...
... liberty , calls loudly for the interposition of this government . To those better acquainted with the facts in relation to it , I leave it to fill up the picture . My mind is irresistibly drawn to the west . Although others may not ...
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... liberty which were so nobly asserted by their wisdom and valor . And American resistance to British usurpation had not been more warmly che rished by these great men and their compatriots ; not 28 AMERICAN ORATOR . - RANDOLPH .
... liberty which were so nobly asserted by their wisdom and valor . And American resistance to British usurpation had not been more warmly che rished by these great men and their compatriots ; not 28 AMERICAN ORATOR . - RANDOLPH .
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Страница 76 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Страница 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Страница 322 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
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Страница 316 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Страница 314 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...