Pulpit Elocution: Comprising Remarks on the Effect of Manner in Public Discourse; the Elements of Elocution, Applied to the Reading of the Scriptures, Hymns, and Sermons; with Observations on the Principles of Gesture; and a Selection of Exercises in Reading and SpeakingW.F. Draper, 1869 - 413 páginas |
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... Demosthenes is wanting , for it must be heard and not read . " Quintilian says of Hortensius , that " there was something in him which strangely pleased when he spoke , which those who perused his orations could not find . " The younger ...
... Demosthenes is wanting , for it must be heard and not read . " Quintilian says of Hortensius , that " there was something in him which strangely pleased when he spoke , which those who perused his orations could not find . " The younger ...
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... Demosthenes , among the Greeks , and Cicero , among the Romans , were the most assiduous , the most rigo- rous , the most literal self - cultivators , in the humblest and minutest details of practical elocution . Surely , if ever there ...
... Demosthenes , among the Greeks , and Cicero , among the Romans , were the most assiduous , the most rigo- rous , the most literal self - cultivators , in the humblest and minutest details of practical elocution . Surely , if ever there ...
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... Demosthenes and Cicero could not have submitted to a fantastic ' discipline . The former stands acknowledged the strongest and manliest specimen of mind , that history has preserved to us ; the latter , the most practical in tendency ...
... Demosthenes and Cicero could not have submitted to a fantastic ' discipline . The former stands acknowledged the strongest and manliest specimen of mind , that history has preserved to us ; the latter , the most practical in tendency ...
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... Demosthenes and Cicero and Chatham are , to his view , themselves again , in their original power and splendor . The daily practice of reading aloud , and declaiming from these authors , cannot but rouse and impel a mind that truly ...
... Demosthenes and Cicero and Chatham are , to his view , themselves again , in their original power and splendor . The daily practice of reading aloud , and declaiming from these authors , cannot but rouse and impel a mind that truly ...
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... Demosthenes , or Cicero , or Chatham . But true vehemence never de- generates into violence and vociferation . It is the force of inspiration , not of frenzy . It is not manifested in + - the screaming and foaming , the stamping and 70 ...
... Demosthenes , or Cicero , or Chatham . But true vehemence never de- generates into violence and vociferation . It is the force of inspiration , not of frenzy . It is not manifested in + - the screaming and foaming , the stamping and 70 ...
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