American Humor: Beecher, Hawthorne, Holmes, Irving, Longfellow, EtcPutnam, 1886 - 287 páginas |
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... speak like a leader. If you analyze the way leaders speak, there are some key characteristics they have which you will need to acquire for yourself before you can do the same. Leaders have a vision and a mission in mind Leaders don't ...
... speak like a leader. If you analyze the way leaders speak, there are some key characteristics they have which you will need to acquire for yourself before you can do the same. Leaders have a vision and a mission in mind Leaders don't ...
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... speak to our friends. My friendship with the audience made me a better speaker, and I realized others could benefit from my discovery. with our audience before we speak. Remember speaking is about the audience. It's not about us, which ...
... speak to our friends. My friendship with the audience made me a better speaker, and I realized others could benefit from my discovery. with our audience before we speak. Remember speaking is about the audience. It's not about us, which ...
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... speaking of freedom may depend , at least in part , upon learning and being graced to speak freely . The values , attitudes , visions , and practices of emancipatory transformation must be born and reborn in the very process of women ...
... speaking of freedom may depend , at least in part , upon learning and being graced to speak freely . The values , attitudes , visions , and practices of emancipatory transformation must be born and reborn in the very process of women ...
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... speaking, even in a first language. Rubin and Schramm (1997: 34) echo Lado when they state that 'The validity of speech assessments suffers from a lack of construct definition.' Learning to speak a second language Learning to speak a ...
... speaking, even in a first language. Rubin and Schramm (1997: 34) echo Lado when they state that 'The validity of speech assessments suffers from a lack of construct definition.' Learning to speak a second language Learning to speak a ...
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... speak while seated . The preliminaries relating to committee meetings and similar occasions are dealt with in Part III . It is always better to speak standing if you have any choice and if circumstances allow . Your voice will project ...
... speak while seated . The preliminaries relating to committee meetings and similar occasions are dealt with in Part III . It is always better to speak standing if you have any choice and if circumstances allow . Your voice will project ...
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Página 194 - An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'.
Página 5 - ... a beer barrel on skids. His face, that infallible index of the mind, presented a vast expanse, unfurrowed by those lines and angles which disfigure the human countenance with what is termed expression. Two small gray eyes twinkled feebly in the midst, like two stars of lesser magnitude in a hazy firmament, and his full-fed cheeks, which seemed to have taken toll of everything that went into his mouth, were curiously mottled and streaked with dusty red, like a spitzenberg apple.
Página 195 - An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser. Agin the chimbley crook-necks hung, An' in amongst 'em rusted The ole queen's-arm thet gran'ther Young Fetched back from Concord busted. The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin', An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'.
Página 226 - Applause followed, which turned Dennis's head. He rose, fluttered, and tried No. 3 : "There has been so much said, and, on the whole, so well said, that I will not longer occupy the time!
Página 194 - There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser. Agin the chimbley crook-necks hung, An...
Página 216 - But Dr. Wigan does not go into these niceties of this subject, and I failed. It was then, that, on my wife's suggestion, I resolved to look out for a Double. I was, at first, singularly successful. We happened to be recreating at Stafford Springs that summer. We rode out one day, for one of the relaxations of that watering-place, to the great Monson Poor-House.
Página 232 - Very well, thank you. And you?" This for an answer to casual salutations. 2. "I am very glad you liked it." 3. "There has been so much said, and, on the whole, so well said, that I will not occupy the time.
Página 92 - And is there nothing yet unsaid Before the change appears ? Remember, all their gifts have fled With those dissolving years ! " Why, yes ; for memory would recall My fond paternal joys ; I could not bear to leave them all ; I'll take — my — girl — and — boys...
Página 40 - Dance with me, Clara," cried Colonel Killigrew. " No, no ! I will be her partner," shouted Mr. Gascoigne. " She promised me her hand fifty years ago," exclaimed Mr. Medbourne. They all gathered round her. One caught both her hands in his passionate grasp, another threw his arm about her waist, the third buried his hand among the glossy curls that clustered beneath the widow's cap. Blushing, panting, struggling, chiding, laughing, her warm breath fanning each of their faces by turns, she strove to...
Página 26 - ... little better than a mendicant. Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best years, and his health and substance, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other torments of soul and body. Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician, a man of evil fame, or at least had been so till time had buried him from the knowledge of the present generation, and made him obscure instead of infamous.