The American Debater: Being a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public Debate ...S.C. Griggs & Company, 1860 - 360 páginas |
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... exercises , and better calculated than most other exercises in speaking and writing , to awaken interest and secure pro- ficiency , this work is commended as a suitable text - book , wherewith the subject may be brought up in regular ...
... exercises , and better calculated than most other exercises in speaking and writing , to awaken interest and secure pro- ficiency , this work is commended as a suitable text - book , wherewith the subject may be brought up in regular ...
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... exercise of wisdom in relation to what is useful , what is expedient , what is best to be done . The occasions for the use of deliberative eloquence are now more numerous and important than they ever have been in any previous age of the ...
... exercise of wisdom in relation to what is useful , what is expedient , what is best to be done . The occasions for the use of deliberative eloquence are now more numerous and important than they ever have been in any previous age of the ...
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... exercise their talents in the composition and delivery of set orations or lectures adapted to particular times and occasions . But to speak in a deliberative assembly , to enlighten and sway the minds of men engaged in the consideration ...
... exercise their talents in the composition and delivery of set orations or lectures adapted to particular times and occasions . But to speak in a deliberative assembly , to enlighten and sway the minds of men engaged in the consideration ...
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... exercise is not only attended with no adequate benefit , but is , generally speaking , a positive injury ; since it generates in the speaker himself habits unfa- vorable to close thinking and accurate composition . The error underlying ...
... exercise is not only attended with no adequate benefit , but is , generally speaking , a positive injury ; since it generates in the speaker himself habits unfa- vorable to close thinking and accurate composition . The error underlying ...
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... exercise of his powers , as an extemporaneous orator ; while he , in whom carelessness and idleness have fixed their abode , has in him two evil spirits , too powerful to be exor- cised by the mere practice of penmanship . Written ...
... exercise of his powers , as an extemporaneous orator ; while he , in whom carelessness and idleness have fixed their abode , has in him two evil spirits , too powerful to be exor- cised by the mere practice of penmanship . Written ...
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