The Orator's Touchstone: Or, Eloquence Simplified. Embracing a Comprehensive System of Instruction for the Improvement of the Voice, and for Advancement in the General Art of Public SpeakingHarper, 1854 - 327 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 133 - They are to be delivered out from the lips, as beautiful coins newly issued from the mint, deeply and accurately impressed, perfectly finished, neatly struck by the proper organs, distinct, sharp, in due succession, and of due weight.
Pàgina 109 - ... his country's existence had otherwise begun? — Who would desire the power of going back to the ages of fable? Who would wish for an origin, obscured in the darkness of antiquity? — Who would wish for other emblazoning of his country's heraldry, or other ornaments of her genealogy, than to be able to say, that her first existence was with intelligence; her first breath the inspirations of liberty; her first principle the truth of divine religion?
Pàgina 36 - This peculiar voice, which is adapted to the expression of what is solemn, grand and exciting, " is formed in those parts of the mouth posterior to the palate, bounded below by the root of the tongue, above by the commencement of the palate, behind by the most posterior part of the throat, and on the sides by the angles of the jaw. The...
Pàgina i - The Orator's Touchstone; or, Eloquence Simplified. Embracing a comprehensive System of Instruction for the Improvement of the Voice, and for advancement in the general Art of Public Speaking.
Pàgina 36 - ... bounded below by the root of the tongue, above by the commencement of the palate, behind by the most posterior part of the throat, and on the sides by the angles of the jaw. The tongue, .in the meantime, is hollowed and drawn back ; and the mouth is opened in such a manner as to favor as much...
Pàgina 92 - ... attributable to no ordinary cost in the way of labor and pains-taking ; that from an early period of his life he had been accustomed to the exercise of declaiming when alone on questions selected for the occasion, that he sometimes addressed the stock on his farm, at other times a tree in the forest...
Pàgina 46 - ... thought of my father, who could not have sustained such a blow as my death, restrained me, and I commanded myself to live ; " and he did live. Sir Walter Scott, at fifty-five, was deeply in debt ; but, though far from being well, he was determined to pay every dollar. This resolution gave new courage to every faculty of the mind and every function of the body, and they rushed to the rescue under the stimulus. Every nerve and fibre said the debt must be paid, and it was paid. It is difficult for...
Pàgina ii - Congress, in the year 1S53, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk-s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Pàgina 145 - Why it is a result which flows from the nature and constitution of man. The conversational speaker addresses them in that style which commands their attention at the festive board, at the fireside, in the fields of labor, on the public highways, and in all the simpler duties and pleasures of life.
Pàgina 167 - Somers, that he once delivered a speech in the House of Peers in the space of seven minutes, which was so replete...