Oratory and OratorsS.S. Griggs, 1891 - 456 páginas |
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... electric current of sympathy is estab- lished , and the orator sends upon it thrill after thrill of sentiment and emotion , vibrating and pulsating to the sensibilities of his hearers , as if their very heart - strings were held in the ...
... electric current of sympathy is estab- lished , and the orator sends upon it thrill after thrill of sentiment and emotion , vibrating and pulsating to the sensibilities of his hearers , as if their very heart - strings were held in the ...
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... electric irritability , and writhed as under an al- most preternatural agitation . The effect of his eloquence , which was of the grandest and most impressive kind , abounding in bold images , striking metaphors , and sud- den natural ...
... electric irritability , and writhed as under an al- most preternatural agitation . The effect of his eloquence , which was of the grandest and most impressive kind , abounding in bold images , striking metaphors , and sud- den natural ...
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... electric power ; and , had he not died prematurely , he might , perhaps , have dissuaded France from plunging into the gulf of anar- chy , and shown a genius for reconstruction only inferior to that which he had displayed as a destroyer ...
... electric power ; and , had he not died prematurely , he might , perhaps , have dissuaded France from plunging into the gulf of anar- chy , and shown a genius for reconstruction only inferior to that which he had displayed as a destroyer ...
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... electric shock had passed through them : they all rose for a moment to look at him ! A memorable example of the power of eloquence is furnished by the speech of Lord Stanley ( afterward the Earl of Derby ) on the Irish Coercion Bill ...
... electric shock had passed through them : they all rose for a moment to look at him ! A memorable example of the power of eloquence is furnished by the speech of Lord Stanley ( afterward the Earl of Derby ) on the Irish Coercion Bill ...
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... electric telegraph and the phonograph , we have also enthroned a sordid , crouching , mammon - worshipping spirit in high places ; we have deified dullness , and idol- ized cotton - spinning and knife - grinding , till oratory , which ...
... electric telegraph and the phonograph , we have also enthroned a sordid , crouching , mammon - worshipping spirit in high places ; we have deified dullness , and idol- ized cotton - spinning and knife - grinding , till oratory , which ...
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