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advantage aims appeal arrangement association of ideas attention attitude audience avoid black-board the sentence chapter chiropo clear and forceful coherence continuing to mispronounce desirable dience discussion DREAD OF SPEAKING effect elaborate emphasis essen essential expression Extempore Speaking factor fault with speakers following old example gesture humor idea illustration important impression indistinct separa indistinct speaking Indistinctness as manifested INDISTINCTNESS Indistinctness Industrial Arbitration interest International Nickel Co major premise material matter method Midvale mind modulations Navy League notes a pronunciation noun opening person phase pronouncing dissyllables pronunciation by listening pronunciation which varies public address public speaking QUESTION OF INDISTINCTNESS rections regular space Running Words school-mistress asked separate words properly shortcoming should lose significant speaker's words-all SPEAKING IN PUBLIC speech street-car style suggested talk tence termed logical them-be easily things thoughts ticulate tion topic uncertain about words voice vowel Words Together Running words-all of them-be
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Page 42 - Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?
Page 76 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Page 42 - Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love ? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir.
Page 76 - English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English constitution which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Page 54 - He makes light of favours while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when...
Page 180 - Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!
Page 76 - Do not entertain so weak an imagination as that your registers and your bonds, your affidavits and your sufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are what form the great securities of your commerce. Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, and your suspending clauses, are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole.
Page 77 - All this I know well enough will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of vulgar and mechanical politicians, who have no place among us, — a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Page 50 - But there is of culture another view, in which not solely the scientific passion, the sheer desire to see things as they are, natural and proper in an intelligent being, appears as the ground of it. There is a view in which all the love of our...
Page 51 - There is a view in which all the love of our neighbour, the impulses towards action, help, and beneficence, the desire for removing human error, clearing human confusion, and diminishing human misery, the noble aspiration to leave the world better and happier than we found it...