A Selection from the World's Great Orations Illustrative of the History of Oratory and the Art of Public SpeakingSherwin Cody |
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... words shake a nation till it trembles like a leaf . 66 Oratory , " says Macaulay , " is to be estimated on principles different from those which are ap- plied to other productions . Truth is the object even of those works which are ...
... words shake a nation till it trembles like a leaf . 66 Oratory , " says Macaulay , " is to be estimated on principles different from those which are ap- plied to other productions . Truth is the object even of those works which are ...
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... words roll out in perfect oratorical rhythm , his periods are nicely balanced , his figures of speech and his choice of words beautifully artistic , sing- ing through the mind like music and enchanting the ear . He is what we would call ...
... words roll out in perfect oratorical rhythm , his periods are nicely balanced , his figures of speech and his choice of words beautifully artistic , sing- ing through the mind like music and enchanting the ear . He is what we would call ...
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... word of characterization about each . Demosthenian SAVONAROLA : simple and plain , and also fiery , but not Ciceronian BOSSUET : a true disciple so artful as Demosthenes in of Cicero , as a preacher , but his appeal to the audience ...
... word of characterization about each . Demosthenian SAVONAROLA : simple and plain , and also fiery , but not Ciceronian BOSSUET : a true disciple so artful as Demosthenes in of Cicero , as a preacher , but his appeal to the audience ...
Page xix
... Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way , but they cannot compass it . It must exist in the man , in the subject , and in the occasion . Affected passion , intense expression , the pomp of declama- tion , all may aspire after ...
... Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way , but they cannot compass it . It must exist in the man , in the subject , and in the occasion . Affected passion , intense expression , the pomp of declama- tion , all may aspire after ...
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... words . - Undoubtedly the music of the voice , the tone filled with sweetness and intelligence , is the first thing that catches the ear of the audience . The development and management of the voice is a fine art in itself , and an ...
... words . - Undoubtedly the music of the voice , the tone filled with sweetness and intelligence , is the first thing that catches the ear of the audience . The development and management of the voice is a fine art in itself , and an ...
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Page 403 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 324 - Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation ? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love ? 3.
Page 344 - VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed!
Page 326 - Gentlemen may cry peace, peace! But there is no peace! The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me — give me liberty, or give me death!
Page 184 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page xix - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Page xix - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech.
Page 397 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 398 - ... of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood. Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as What is...
Page 366 - ... it from that Union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest monuments of its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin.