The Speaker: Being One of a Series of Handbooks Upon Practical Expression Criticism at Princeton College. An Abridgement of The Orator's ManualSilver, Burdett and Company, 1892 - 308 páginas |
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Página v
... important , tends to artificiality . Wherever a student's delivery is right , it should be let alone . For the reasons mentioned , it is believed that many will wel- come a book which is designed to confine class instruction to the more ...
... important , tends to artificiality . Wherever a student's delivery is right , it should be let alone . For the reasons mentioned , it is believed that many will wel- come a book which is designed to confine class instruction to the more ...
Página vii
... , and never in so many of these as at present , merely proves the importance of method and the substantial agreement of results to which similar methods inevitably tend . Lesson I. - Lesson II . - CONTENTS . PART PREFACE . vii.
... , and never in so many of these as at present , merely proves the importance of method and the substantial agreement of results to which similar methods inevitably tend . Lesson I. - Lesson II . - CONTENTS . PART PREFACE . vii.
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... important for him to understand that a thorough culture of the voice involves a daily practice of the exercises indicated in these first two chapters , continued through months and years . For the first few weeks , until the muscles of ...
... important for him to understand that a thorough culture of the voice involves a daily practice of the exercises indicated in these first two chapters , continued through months and years . For the first few weeks , until the muscles of ...
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... important that its entrances and exits and resonating " flies " should be kept open and free from obstruction ( the Eustachian tubes are easily inflated if mouth and nose be closed ) , the chief organ of in- tensification under control ...
... important that its entrances and exits and resonating " flies " should be kept open and free from obstruction ( the Eustachian tubes are easily inflated if mouth and nose be closed ) , the chief organ of in- tensification under control ...
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... importance , if we wish to be rightly understood , of emphasizing the right words in the right way . It will be noticed that the same phraseology may be made to convey almost as many different ideas as there are different words in it to ...
... importance , if we wish to be rightly understood , of emphasizing the right words in the right way . It will be noticed that the same phraseology may be made to convey almost as many different ideas as there are different words in it to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abdomen affirmative arms audience body breath cause character chest circumflex civilization clause close conditional mood consonants divisions E. S. Werner elbow Elocution emphasis Eustachian tubes expression falling inflection Finger gesture fingers force forward Ft on waist gesture give h RC hand heart human idea idem idem idem imperative mood influence larynx LESSON liberty lift LIST OF SPEECHES literature Lord lungs mind moral mouth move movement nation nature object Orator's Manual orotund palate palm pause pharynx Phila philosophy phraseology position Practise Princeton College principle PRIZE ORATION prone Puritan Reign of Terror rising inflection Rússia sentence side soft palate soul sound speaker speech spirit Stoicism straight syllable Terminal Stress things thou thought throat thumb tion tone tr R C unto utterance uvula vocal voice vowels words wrist
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Página 72 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Página 32 - So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure ? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Página 40 - They are like unto children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, "We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Página 18 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Página 33 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 18 - What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in Spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son...
Página 42 - President, when the mariner has been tossed, for many days, in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Página 27 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Página 155 - Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the Evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no -earthly sacrifice.