Effective Public Speaking: The Essentials of Extempore Speaking and of Gesture, 第 1～2 巻Macmillan, 1917 |
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advantage aims appeal arouse arrangement association of ideas attention attitude audience avoid body cause chapter clear and forceful coherence conclusion consider definite desirable dience discussion effect elaborate emotional emphasis employed essen essential example expression EXTEMPORE SPEAKING factor feeling Fuzzy-Wuzzy give hand head hear humor idea illustration important impression Industrial Arbitration interest International Nickel International Nickel Co investigation listeners main theme major premise manner material matter means ment method Midvale mind modulations nature Navy League ness noted observed occasion opening ordinarily passage person phase pitch plane position practical preparation present principles pronunciation public address public speaking purpose reading and note-taking reference regular space Robert Browning secure self-confidence sentence significant space order speaker speaks in public specific speech stroke student style suggested supine talk tence termed logical things thought ticulate tion topic various voice words
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34 ページ - Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?
140 ページ - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
42 ページ - Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation.
39 ページ - Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation ? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth ; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
63 ページ - He determined to revisit the scene of the last evening's gambol, and if he met with any of the party, to demand his dog and gun. As he rose to walk, he found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in his usual activity. " These mountain beds do not agree with me...
153 ページ - twas not Her husband's presence only, called that spot Of joy into the Duchess' cheek : perhaps Fra Pandolph chanced to say "Her mantle laps Over my lady's wrist too much...
68 ページ - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
113 ページ - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
40 ページ - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And, judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the house. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received .? Trust it not, sir ; it will prove a snare to your feet.
42 ページ - And what have we to oppose to them ? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable ; but it has been all in vain.