Pulpit Elocution: Comprising Remarks on the Effect of Manner in Public Discourse; the Elements of Elocution, Applied to the Reading of the Scriptures, Hymns, and Sermons; with Observations on the Principles of Gesture; and a Selection of Exercises in Reading and SpeakingW.F. Draper, 1869 - 413 pages |
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Page 45
... traits of a good clocution . The student of theology , who has yet the susceptibility of youthful life upon him , and the leisure to cultivate his powers , and form his manner , and who , whether from self - sufficiency , or ignorance ...
... traits of a good clocution . The student of theology , who has yet the susceptibility of youthful life upon him , and the leisure to cultivate his powers , and form his manner , and who , whether from self - sufficiency , or ignorance ...
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... traits in all his humbler sphere of creation and effect . His nature thirsts for these , in every act of mind or body . But if false taste and erroneous habit usurp the control of the forming processes of education , the natural tenden ...
... traits in all his humbler sphere of creation and effect . His nature thirsts for these , in every act of mind or body . But if false taste and erroneous habit usurp the control of the forming processes of education , the natural tenden ...
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... traits of manner must be conventional , and , for every purpose of eloquence , untrue , and ineffectual or injurious . A few weeks of assiduous culture , however , would re- move the impediments which artificial habit has thus ...
... traits of manner must be conventional , and , for every purpose of eloquence , untrue , and ineffectual or injurious . A few weeks of assiduous culture , however , would re- move the impediments which artificial habit has thus ...
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... trait in your own mental character will thus be quickened , and the power of penetrating the heart and swaying the sympa- thies of others , be acquired , - to an indefinite extent . -- Could the young preacher be but induced to bestow a ...
... trait in your own mental character will thus be quickened , and the power of penetrating the heart and swaying the sympa- thies of others , be acquired , - to an indefinite extent . -- Could the young preacher be but induced to bestow a ...
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... trait of eloquence . It is a thing not to be mistaken . It depends not on sci- It is a direct product of the soul . It has no half- way existence . Either it is not , or it comes " beaming from the eye , speaking on the tongue ...
... trait of eloquence . It is a thing not to be mistaken . It depends not on sci- It is a direct product of the soul . It has no half- way existence . Either it is not , or it comes " beaming from the eye , speaking on the tongue ...
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