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... exercise the organs of speech , whether in conversation , reading , or public speaking , we employ some of our powers of elocution . Throughout all the diversities of rank and sex , including kings and beg- gars , every individual ...
... exercise the organs of speech , whether in conversation , reading , or public speaking , we employ some of our powers of elocution . Throughout all the diversities of rank and sex , including kings and beg- gars , every individual ...
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... exercises . This work contains a great variety of pieces , all of which are suitable , both for reading , and for exercises in recitation . There is no good reason for drawing a line of demarcation between reading and speaking . To ...
... exercises . This work contains a great variety of pieces , all of which are suitable , both for reading , and for exercises in recitation . There is no good reason for drawing a line of demarcation between reading and speaking . To ...
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... exercises in reading and declamation , are selected indis- criminately , from ancient and modern authors ; and also from foreigners , and from Americans . The object has been to embody the best pieces in our language , for elocutionary ...
... exercises in reading and declamation , are selected indis- criminately , from ancient and modern authors ; and also from foreigners , and from Americans . The object has been to embody the best pieces in our language , for elocutionary ...
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... exercise constitutes a kind of gymnastic training of the voice . The Greeks acquired great physical strength , by engaging in the Olympic games . The Roman soldiers qualified themselves to handle a sword skilfully in actual battle , by ...
... exercise constitutes a kind of gymnastic training of the voice . The Greeks acquired great physical strength , by engaging in the Olympic games . The Roman soldiers qualified themselves to handle a sword skilfully in actual battle , by ...
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... exercises , heavy armor . By giving the elements , and reciting some of the best pieces of Shakspeare , Milton , Byron , and other distinguished writers , with all possible force of voice , an individual may acquire the ability to ...
... exercises , heavy armor . By giving the elements , and reciting some of the best pieces of Shakspeare , Milton , Byron , and other distinguished writers , with all possible force of voice , an individual may acquire the ability to ...
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Page 111 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts; I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on...
Page 142 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 105 - Join voices, all ye living Souls : Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep ; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light...
Page 111 - That gave me public leave to speak of him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Page 126 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, — say, I taught thee...
Page 294 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart...
Page 348 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require : at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 304 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 154 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Page 111 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.