The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 páginas |
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... cause of education , especially in that particular sphere for which it is intended . It has been a leading object to render it as completely an American work as possible , and therefore many foreign speeches and essays are not inserted ...
... cause of education , especially in that particular sphere for which it is intended . It has been a leading object to render it as completely an American work as possible , and therefore many foreign speeches and essays are not inserted ...
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... cause " that is , elocution and gesture united , as they ap- peared in the actual delivery of an oration , in the Senate or the Forum . From this view of the subject it appears , though Demos- thenes designedly intimated that action was ...
... cause " that is , elocution and gesture united , as they ap- peared in the actual delivery of an oration , in the Senate or the Forum . From this view of the subject it appears , though Demos- thenes designedly intimated that action was ...
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... cause , that we so often hear persons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all , that is , with a stupid monotony . Much study and pains are necessary in acquiring the habit of just and forcible pronun- ciation ; and ...
... cause , that we so often hear persons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all , that is , with a stupid monotony . Much study and pains are necessary in acquiring the habit of just and forcible pronun- ciation ; and ...
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... cause of mo- notony , by leading the reader to an uniform cadence at eve- ry full period . The use of points is to assist the reader in discerning the grammatical construction , not to direct his pronunciation . In reading , it may be ...
... cause of mo- notony , by leading the reader to an uniform cadence at eve- ry full period . The use of points is to assist the reader in discerning the grammatical construction , not to direct his pronunciation . In reading , it may be ...
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... time greatness of this republic . The unjust and unprecedented demands now made by Great Britain , that we shall cause the markets of the continent to be opened to her manufactures , fully justi AMERICAN ORATOR . - GRUNDY . 18.
... time greatness of this republic . The unjust and unprecedented demands now made by Great Britain , that we shall cause the markets of the continent to be opened to her manufactures , fully justi AMERICAN ORATOR . - GRUNDY . 18.
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Aaron Burr affection American arms army believe BENJAMIN RUSH bill blessings blood bosom Britain British Brutus calamity Canada cation cause character charity Christ Christian citizens command commerce constitution corrupted danger death defend Demosthenes distress dreadful duty earth enemy eternal exertions Extract eyes fame feel FISHER AMES force France friends gentlemen give glory Gospel hand happiness hath heart Heaven honour hope human interest invasion invasion of Canada Ireland Jacobins justice libel liberty look Lord mankind maritime rights means measures ment militia mind nation nature never object opinion party passions patriots peace political prayers present principles religion republican revolution ruin sans-culottes scene sentiments sion soul speak speaker spect Speech spirit suffering sword Syph Syphax tears tence thee thing thou tion truth virtue voice Washington whole William Cobbett words
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Página 303 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 316 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Página 76 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Página 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Página 322 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Página 313 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Página 316 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Página 314 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...