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... speak of a machine as efficient when it does its work without loss of power . If a hundred pounds of steam pressure are applied to it , the full hundred pounds are accounted for in valuable engine power . There is no waste . Any ...
... speak of a machine as efficient when it does its work without loss of power . If a hundred pounds of steam pressure are applied to it , the full hundred pounds are accounted for in valuable engine power . There is no waste . Any ...
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... speaking in the privacy of his home or office . Speech is an art which can be mastered only by much practice under ... speak is by daily lessons under the direct , personal guidance of a teacher of the art . But if a student who cannot ...
... speaking in the privacy of his home or office . Speech is an art which can be mastered only by much practice under ... speak is by daily lessons under the direct , personal guidance of a teacher of the art . But if a student who cannot ...
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... speak for more than a few minutes without becoming hoarse or having their voices " break . " Their voices may be monotonous and unexpressive or weak , without carrying power . Their gestures may also be awkward . Such deficiencies must ...
... speak for more than a few minutes without becoming hoarse or having their voices " break . " Their voices may be monotonous and unexpressive or weak , without carrying power . Their gestures may also be awkward . Such deficiencies must ...
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... speak the development . In your oral amplification , do not try to remember words which Beecher used before . Merely keep your three ideas in mind and develop them in the same way you would make clear any thought of your own in con ...
... speak the development . In your oral amplification , do not try to remember words which Beecher used before . Merely keep your three ideas in mind and develop them in the same way you would make clear any thought of your own in con ...
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... deal of oral expression . Speak in large gather- ings whenever the opportunity arises . Always have your thoughts organized ; do not let them come out in chance order or no order at all . At any 14 EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SPEAKING.
... deal of oral expression . Speak in large gather- ings whenever the opportunity arises . Always have your thoughts organized ; do not let them come out in chance order or no order at all . At any 14 EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SPEAKING.
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Page 158 - 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! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes...
Page 95 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 453 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it.
Page 219 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Page 368 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ' The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 355 - My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who authorized them to speak the language of We, the People, instead of We, the States?
Page 299 - The war, then, must go on. We must fight it through. And if the war must go on, why put off longer the Declaration of Independence ? That measure will strengthen us.
Page 300 - Read this declaration at the head of the army: every sword will be drawn from its scabbard, and the solemn vow uttered to maintain it, or to perish on the bed of honor.
Page 367 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 93 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole. country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad.