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... come forward with their helpful ideas . The " cog in the machine " is urged to be somebody , to show and use his individual capability . Leadership must first express itself in speech . One must know how to ask for things , how to ...
... come forward with their helpful ideas . The " cog in the machine " is urged to be somebody , to show and use his individual capability . Leadership must first express itself in speech . One must know how to ask for things , how to ...
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... come consciously to observe the actors . The play's the thing . The audience is absorbed in the story . The actors are submerged in their parts — in their message , and the audience forgets them or takes them for granted . You , too ...
... come consciously to observe the actors . The play's the thing . The audience is absorbed in the story . The actors are submerged in their parts — in their message , and the audience forgets them or takes them for granted . You , too ...
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... comes to talking about the facts and emotions that really govern them . They are afraid of sounding silly or bookish . They fear the jibe or cynical smile . The author and the public speaker have the time and the means to create moods ...
... comes to talking about the facts and emotions that really govern them . They are afraid of sounding silly or bookish . They fear the jibe or cynical smile . The author and the public speaker have the time and the means to create moods ...
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... come back to us with a certain alienated majesty . Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this : they teach us to abide by our spontaneous expression with good - humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry ...
... come back to us with a certain alienated majesty . Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this : they teach us to abide by our spontaneous expression with good - humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry ...
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... come together ? How long do they expect you to speak ? Who else is to speak ? Who will intro- duce you ? Visualize your audience . See yourself on the platform or at the table . Forecast conditions as accurately as possible . Forewarned ...
... come together ? How long do they expect you to speak ? Who else is to speak ? Who will intro- duce you ? Visualize your audience . See yourself on the platform or at the table . Forecast conditions as accurately as possible . Forewarned ...
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Page 245 - For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe: You call me misbeliever, cut-throat, dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears, you need my help; Go to, then; you come to me, and you say, Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 74 - Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Page 166 - Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 74 - I tell thee thou'rt defied! And if thou saidst I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied!
Page 240 - Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple...
Page 245 - Remember March, the ides of March remember : Did not great Julius bleed for justice sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What ! shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now...
Page 166 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Page 236 - O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still...
Page 188 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 239 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...