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 ページ |
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... effect of close attention and long practice , to be able with a mere glance of the eye , to read any piece with good emphasis and good discretion . It is another office of emphasis to express the opposition between the several parts of ...
... effect of close attention and long practice , to be able with a mere glance of the eye , to read any piece with good emphasis and good discretion . It is another office of emphasis to express the opposition between the several parts of ...
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... effect of great ignorance and inattention , or of a depra- ved state . RULE VI . Acquire a just Variety of PAUSE and CADENCE . One of the worst faults a speaker can have , is to make no other pauses , that what he finds barely necessary ...
... effect of great ignorance and inattention , or of a depra- ved state . RULE VI . Acquire a just Variety of PAUSE and CADENCE . One of the worst faults a speaker can have , is to make no other pauses , that what he finds barely necessary ...
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... effect . If I am right in this conjecture , war is not to com- mence by sea or land , it is already begun ; and some ... effects is the operation of this law producing ? It is demoralizing our citizens : men of commercial habits cannot ...
... effect . If I am right in this conjecture , war is not to com- mence by sea or land , it is already begun ; and some ... effects is the operation of this law producing ? It is demoralizing our citizens : men of commercial habits cannot ...
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... effects ; it will preserve the equilibrium of the government . When Louisiana shall be fully peopled , the northern states will lose their power ; they will be at the discretion of oth- ers ; they can be depressed at pleasure , and then ...
... effects ; it will preserve the equilibrium of the government . When Louisiana shall be fully peopled , the northern states will lose their power ; they will be at the discretion of oth- ers ; they can be depressed at pleasure , and then ...
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... effects now , as then ? Sir , you may raise this army , you may build up this yast structure of patronage , this mighty apparatus of favor- itism ? but " lay not the flattering unction to your souls " -you will never live to enjoy the ...
... effects now , as then ? Sir , you may raise this army , you may build up this yast structure of patronage , this mighty apparatus of favor- itism ? but " lay not the flattering unction to your souls " -you will never live to enjoy the ...
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303 ページ - 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!
316 ページ - 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!
76 ページ - ... 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.
177 ページ - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
322 ページ - 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.
313 ページ - 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...
316 ページ - 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...
314 ページ - 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...