The Book of Oratory: Compiled for the Use of Colleges, Academies, and the Higher Classes of Select and Parish SchoolsD. & J. Sadlier, 1871 - 648 Seiten |
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... Orator .. 100. The Great Condé . 101. Christ our Light ... 102. Funeral Oration of Henrietta of England . 103. Funeral Oration of the Duchess of Orleans .. 104. The Death of the Sinner St. Bernard 617 .Chateaubriand 620 .Bossuet 621 .De ...
... Orator .. 100. The Great Condé . 101. Christ our Light ... 102. Funeral Oration of Henrietta of England . 103. Funeral Oration of the Duchess of Orleans .. 104. The Death of the Sinner St. Bernard 617 .Chateaubriand 620 .Bossuet 621 .De ...
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... orator must stand well ; and much practice in position and gesture is neces- sary for this . We know that gesture cannot be made by rule , in speaking ; and , in the practice , mechanical precision is not to be en- forced , though ...
... orator must stand well ; and much practice in position and gesture is neces- sary for this . We know that gesture cannot be made by rule , in speaking ; and , in the practice , mechanical precision is not to be en- forced , though ...
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... orator was interrupted by Sir Peter Wentworth , who declared that he had never heard language so uuparlia- mentary , -language , too , the more offensive , because it was addressed to them by their own servant , whom they had made what ...
... orator was interrupted by Sir Peter Wentworth , who declared that he had never heard language so uuparlia- mentary , -language , too , the more offensive , because it was addressed to them by their own servant , whom they had made what ...
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... orator and the novelist , for the painter and the poet , age after age , the wild and romantic scenery of war ; the glittering march of armies , and the revelry of the camp ; the shrieks and blasphemies , and all the horrors of the ...
... orator and the novelist , for the painter and the poet , age after age , the wild and romantic scenery of war ; the glittering march of armies , and the revelry of the camp ; the shrieks and blasphemies , and all the horrors of the ...
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... orator of Maryland . The following extract is from an impressive address delivered on the anniversary of the landing of Lord Baltimore and his colony on the green shores of the St. Mary's River . ] THE HE land of Mary , so named at the ...
... orator of Maryland . The following extract is from an impressive address delivered on the anniversary of the landing of Lord Baltimore and his colony on the green shores of the St. Mary's River . ] THE HE land of Mary , so named at the ...
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Seite 329 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Seite 354 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Seite 375 - Liberty first and Union afterward," 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.
Seite 270 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Seite 530 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake ; 'tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their...
Seite 400 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Seite 507 - Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Seite 526 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Seite 356 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Seite 226 - HAVE you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it— ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their wits,— Have you ever heard of that, I say? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,— Snuffy old drone from the German hive!