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Page iii
... speaker - because , in the political life of the Greeks , so much depended on the art of public address . If this study should be named now , and after the most effective means of formal communication , the term would come from reading ...
... speaker - because , in the political life of the Greeks , so much depended on the art of public address . If this study should be named now , and after the most effective means of formal communication , the term would come from reading ...
Page 14
... speaker idealizes an effect desired in another mind , and under this guidance and impulse constructs the discourse which realizes the effect . reader or hearer is also striving to make real the same effect . The end of constructing a ...
... speaker idealizes an effect desired in another mind , and under this guidance and impulse constructs the discourse which realizes the effect . reader or hearer is also striving to make real the same effect . The end of constructing a ...
Page 15
... speaker . It would be as vain to read as to write without a purpose ; in either case the discourse is used for a purpose . It is possible for the reader to use a discourse for another purpose than that for which the author intended it ...
... speaker . It would be as vain to read as to write without a purpose ; in either case the discourse is used for a purpose . It is possible for the reader to use a discourse for another purpose than that for which the author intended it ...
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... speaker be- fore an audience on the Fourth of July , designing to produce an inspiration of patriotism , might instead , by chance , arouse base passions of spoils and anarchy , or the delightful experience of an ocean voyage . The ...
... speaker be- fore an audience on the Fourth of July , designing to produce an inspiration of patriotism , might instead , by chance , arouse base passions of spoils and anarchy , or the delightful experience of an ocean voyage . The ...
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... speaker of the best words . " No one can be a speaker of the best words who is not a thinker of the best thoughts . And just as discourse of worthy effect can spring only from a soul of wealth and worth , so it can be adequately ...
... speaker of the best words . " No one can be a speaker of the best words who is not a thinker of the best thoughts . And just as discourse of worthy effect can spring only from a soul of wealth and worth , so it can be adequately ...
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