The Elements of Speech: A Textbook Designed to Promote Knowledge Of, and Proficiency In, Speech--public and Private |
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... explained in a few easy paragraphs ; they do not admit of monosyllabic exposition . We see no reason why college students should not study just as hard in speech as they do in chemistry , physics , or philosophy . We have tried to write ...
... explained in a few easy paragraphs ; they do not admit of monosyllabic exposition . We see no reason why college students should not study just as hard in speech as they do in chemistry , physics , or philosophy . We have tried to write ...
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... explanation or definition . In this text it is our intention to examine this common , every - day activity which we call speech - to probe into its essence , and so far as possible to explain what it really is . Speech is of course an ...
... explanation or definition . In this text it is our intention to examine this common , every - day activity which we call speech - to probe into its essence , and so far as possible to explain what it really is . Speech is of course an ...
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... explanation of the known facts . As we shall see later , this close relationship between thinking and speech means that any discipline which improves thinking is likely to improve speech and , conversely , any improvement in speech ...
... explanation of the known facts . As we shall see later , this close relationship between thinking and speech means that any discipline which improves thinking is likely to improve speech and , conversely , any improvement in speech ...
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... explained , this really means that he talks it over with himself . It will also be noted , as Allport observes , that the ... explain later , the substituted or symbolic re- sponses come to be recognized by other individuals who learn to ...
... explained , this really means that he talks it over with himself . It will also be noted , as Allport observes , that the ... explain later , the substituted or symbolic re- sponses come to be recognized by other individuals who learn to ...
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... Explain in some detail what is meant by the statement that speech is primarily a social matter . 6. Is it possible for a speaker to fail because his purpose is not objective ? How ? Can a speaker's purpose be subjective ? Explain . 7 ...
... Explain in some detail what is meant by the statement that speech is primarily a social matter . 6. Is it possible for a speaker to fail because his purpose is not objective ? How ? Can a speaker's purpose be subjective ? Explain . 7 ...
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Page 200 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 166 - And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 215 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 208 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — • It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 184 - I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea ; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Page 171 - 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 colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre; I did hear him groan; Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas! it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius', As a sick girl.
Page 202 - I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Page 196 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 163 - THOU still unravished bride of quietness! Thou foster-child of silence and slow time ! Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme : What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these ? What maidens loth ? What mad pursuit ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy ? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye...
Page 167 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main; The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming Lair.