Lectures on Mental and Moral CultureA.S. Barnes & Company, 1869 - 319 páginas |
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... voice is the agency by which this effect is produced . The tones of the voice , though they do not express words , are still capable of being understood , and of producing an effect upon the mind . Every person in this assembly might ...
... voice is the agency by which this effect is produced . The tones of the voice , though they do not express words , are still capable of being understood , and of producing an effect upon the mind . Every person in this assembly might ...
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... voice of anguish from the sufferer . In the skillful use of these tones of emotion lies the secret of the orator's power . Perhaps no man ever understood the compass and expressiveness of the human voice better than David Garrick . His ...
... voice of anguish from the sufferer . In the skillful use of these tones of emotion lies the secret of the orator's power . Perhaps no man ever understood the compass and expressiveness of the human voice better than David Garrick . His ...
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... voice , but more especially in his emphasis , there was a peculiar charm , a magic , of which any one who ever heard him will speak as soon as he is named , but of which no one can give any adequate description . They can only say that ...
... voice , but more especially in his emphasis , there was a peculiar charm , a magic , of which any one who ever heard him will speak as soon as he is named , but of which no one can give any adequate description . They can only say that ...
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... voice swelled into a bolder note , as he uttered some emphatic thought ; but he in- stantly fell back into the tone of earnest conversation , which ran throughout the great body of his speech . A single circumstance will show you the ...
... voice swelled into a bolder note , as he uttered some emphatic thought ; but he in- stantly fell back into the tone of earnest conversation , which ran throughout the great body of his speech . A single circumstance will show you the ...
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... voice choked , and he seemed struggling to the utmost , simply to gain that mastery over himself which might save him from an unmanly burst of feeling . I will not attempt to give you the few broken words of tenderness in which he went ...
... voice choked , and he seemed struggling to the utmost , simply to gain that mastery over himself which might save him from an unmanly burst of feeling . I will not attempt to give you the few broken words of tenderness in which he went ...
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Página 149 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Página 318 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Página 150 - I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man That love my friend, and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood.
Página 145 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 279 - For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 284 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? This was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
Página 109 - Sir, you may destroy this little institution ; it is weak; it is in your hands ! I know it is one of the lesser lights in the literary horizon of our country. You may put it out. But, if you do so, you must carry through your work! You must extinguish, one after another, all those greater lights of science which, for more than a century, have thrown their radiance over our land!
Página 111 - I know not how others may feel,' (glancing at the opponents of the College before him,) ' but, for myself, when I see my Alma Mater surrounded, like Caesar in the senatehouse, by those who are reiterating stab upon stab, I would not, for this right hand, have her turn to me, and say, Et tu quoque mi fili ! And thou too, my son !'
Página 145 - ... any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me; but indeed, madam, though I...
Página 279 - And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other ; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.