Word-power, how to Develop itFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1920 - 172 sider |
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Word-Power, How to Develop It (Classic Reprint) Grenville Kleiser Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2017 |
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ability advantage analogy argument audi audience Castoria cation coln concise conclusion consider Cultivate daily practise definite deliberate speaking delivery demagog dence discontents earth turns effect English English language eral erly essential Euathlus example exercise for developing expression extempore EXTRACT FOR STUDY feeling fore friends give GRENVILLE KLEISER habit of deliberate hearers ideas important impression impulse intelligent interests keep kind Lafayette language Lesson Talk logical manuscript matter means meditation ment MENTALLY OUTLINING method mind models necessary ness orators passage peat phrase poise portant possible precise prejudice preparation principles proper proposition public speaking Rastus read aloud read it aloud realize reason receiveth resolutions sapient self-confidence sincere sion Sir Walter Raleigh SORITES speak in public speaker speech stand student style sun is stationary syllogism synonyms systematic thing thought which causes tion truth vate will-power word-power write zens
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Side 61 - He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word ; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Side 72 - My Friends; No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than tLat which rested upon Washington.
Side 102 - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
Side 82 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie: and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What? No soap?
Side 32 - To whom can this be true who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all men speak, When want or woe or fear is in the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange wild note Sung by some fay or fiend. There is a strength Which dies if stretched too far or spun too fine, Which has more height than breadth, more depth than length. Let but this force of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase, Which glows...
Side 83 - The circumstances, now clearly in evidence, spread out the whole scene before us. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace.
Side 119 - Freedom, thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses, gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling.
Side 60 - Behold, a sower went forth to sow ; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up : some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth : and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth : and when the sun was up, they were scorched ; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Side 142 - ... of liberty, are your Lexington Green and Concord Bridge; and, as you love your country and your kind, and would have your children rise up and call you blessed, spare not the enemy!
Side 60 - When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart; this is he which received seed by the way side.