Beeton's Complete Orator, Including the Art of Public Speaking and British Orators and OratoryWard Lock, 1881 - 288 páginas |
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... Burke , acknowledged to be the greatest of speakers in point of eloquence of thought that this country has ever produced , entirely failed in his effect on the House of Commons by his bad delivery , and acquired the name of the " dinner ...
... Burke , acknowledged to be the greatest of speakers in point of eloquence of thought that this country has ever produced , entirely failed in his effect on the House of Commons by his bad delivery , and acquired the name of the " dinner ...
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... Burke's production of a dagger in the House of Commons in the peroration of his speech on the Bill for the Regulation of Aliens . Another is Lord Brougham's kneeling on the woolsack and imploring the Lords to pass the Reform Bill . This ...
... Burke's production of a dagger in the House of Commons in the peroration of his speech on the Bill for the Regulation of Aliens . Another is Lord Brougham's kneeling on the woolsack and imploring the Lords to pass the Reform Bill . This ...
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... Burke's best compositions , as the Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents ; " " Speech on the American Conciliation , " and " On the Nabob of Arcot's Debt ; " Fox's " Speech on the Westminster Scrutiny " ( the first part of ...
... Burke's best compositions , as the Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents ; " " Speech on the American Conciliation , " and " On the Nabob of Arcot's Debt ; " Fox's " Speech on the Westminster Scrutiny " ( the first part of ...
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... Fortunate Incident - Fascinating Oratory - Boldness and Caution " I know my duty as well as your Lordship " -In behalf of Stockdale -Afraid of Pitt - ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 27 CHAPTER IV . EDMUND BURKE . Edmund BURKE - At.
... Fortunate Incident - Fascinating Oratory - Boldness and Caution " I know my duty as well as your Lordship " -In behalf of Stockdale -Afraid of Pitt - ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 27 CHAPTER IV . EDMUND BURKE . Edmund BURKE - At.
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Samuel Orchart Beeton. CHAPTER IV . EDMUND BURKE . Edmund BURKE - At a Quaker School - Not very .sing - In the Strangers ' Gallery - His Maiden Speech - Published and Unpublished Speeches - At the Trial of Warren Hastings ...
Samuel Orchart Beeton. CHAPTER IV . EDMUND BURKE . Edmund BURKE - At a Quaker School - Not very .sing - In the Strangers ' Gallery - His Maiden Speech - Published and Unpublished Speeches - At the Trial of Warren Hastings ...
Términos y frases comunes
action admiration ancient appear argument assembly attention audience BEETON'S Burke called cause character church Cicero circumflex cloth gilt Coloured debate delivered delivery Demosthenes Dionysius of Halicarnassus discourse effect elocution eloquence emotion English Engravings excited exercise expression favour feeling force friends genius gesture give grace Greek habit hand hear heard hearers heart honour House of Commons House of Lords Illustrations inflection Isocrates JULES VERNE king labour language larynx learning London Lord Brougham Lord Chatham maiden speech manner memory mind modern nature never object observed occasion orator oratory parliament passions pause person pitch Pitt popular practice preacher preaching proper public speaking pulpit Quintilian reason remarks reply Rhetoric Roman rule Salisbury Square says sentence sermon Sheridan sometimes sounds speaker speech spirit spoke style taste things thought tion tone truth utterance voice whilst words writing young
Pasajes populares
Página 80 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 128 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Página 80 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend...
Página 112 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Página 99 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke...
Página 10 - Atlantic wave ? Is India free ? and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still? The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit...
Página 64 - I pray and exhort you not to reject this measure. By all you hold most dear — by all the ties that bind every one of us to our common order and our common country, I solemnly adjure you — I warn you — I implore you — yea, on my bended knees, I supplicate you — reject not this bill!
Página 118 - So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels.in the carcanet.
Página 129 - To give the greater effect to this exclamation, he stamped with his foot, lifted up his hands and eyes to heaven, and with gushing tears, cried aloud, ' Stop, Gabriel ! Stop, ere you enter the sacred portals, and yet carry with you the news of one sinner converted to God.