History of Oratory and Orators: A Study of the Influence of Oratory Upon Politics and Literature |
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... tone of voice , an easy deportment , and a decency of dress which no vehemence of speaking ever put into disorder . These things and others of a like nature excited the admiration of his countrymen . In commenting upon the character of ...
... tone of voice , an easy deportment , and a decency of dress which no vehemence of speaking ever put into disorder . These things and others of a like nature excited the admiration of his countrymen . In commenting upon the character of ...
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... tones , his first Philippic , and urged his hear- ers to make vigorous war against Philip . He realised the true state of affairs . He knew that many of the people had become corrupt and degenerate and incapable of estimating at its ...
... tones , his first Philippic , and urged his hear- ers to make vigorous war against Philip . He realised the true state of affairs . He knew that many of the people had become corrupt and degenerate and incapable of estimating at its ...
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... tones of thunder those ever - memorable words : ' I know not what course others may take , but , as for me , give me LIBERTY , or give me DEATH ! ' " It is in the darkest crises of national struggles for inde- pendence , amid storms and ...
... tones of thunder those ever - memorable words : ' I know not what course others may take , but , as for me , give me LIBERTY , or give me DEATH ! ' " It is in the darkest crises of national struggles for inde- pendence , amid storms and ...
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... tone ; never lets himself down , nor attempts anything like pleasantry . If any fault can be found with his admirable eloquence , it is , that he sometimes borders on the high and dry . He may be thought to want smoothness and grace ...
... tone ; never lets himself down , nor attempts anything like pleasantry . If any fault can be found with his admirable eloquence , it is , that he sometimes borders on the high and dry . He may be thought to want smoothness and grace ...
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... tone of his oratory was admirably adapted to an Athenian audience , constituted as it was of those whose habits of life were mechanical , and of those whom ambition or taste had led to the cultivation of literature . The former were ...
... tone of his oratory was admirably adapted to an Athenian audience , constituted as it was of those whose habits of life were mechanical , and of those whom ambition or taste had led to the cultivation of literature . The former were ...
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admiration advocate American ancient appearance argument arms audience beautiful Brougham called Catiline cause character Chatham Choate Christ Church College Cicero Clay client command Convention of Constantinople countenance court debate defence Demosthenes Disraeli effect eloquence England English Erskine Erskine's Eton expression father feel forensic genius gentleman give Gladstone graceful Grattan greatest hear heard heart honour human interest judges jury justice labour language lawyer learned liberty lives Lord Lord Beaconsfield Lord Brougham Lord Chatham manner ment mind modern moral nation nature never O'Connell occasion orator oratory parliament passions patriotism person political Principal Robertson principles quence remarkable Roman Rome senate speaker speaking speech spirit statesman style success talents thought tion tone trial Vivian Grey voice Webster whole William Ewart Gladstone Winthrop Mackworth Praed words writer Writs of Assistance
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Page 378 - Not as the conqueror comes They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame. Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; — They shook the depths of the desert gloom, With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 324 - Mr President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Page 150 - English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English constitution which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies, every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Page 398 - And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit.
Page 401 - 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, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Page 176 - ... no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
Page 326 - What terms shall we find which have not already been exhausted ? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions...
Page 398 - ... sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit. If discord and disunion shall wound it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness — if uneasiness, under salutary and necessary...
Page 404 - Ah! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe.
Page 395 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting.