... PUBLIC SPEAKING. PROFESSOR HUXLEY attributes man's pre-eminent position in nature to a pair of nerves that supply the muscles of the glottis. Upon these nerves depends the power of speech, and it is the power of speech that con- stitutes and makes ...

... even though the man who does these things can speak no word out of his own language. To speak another language well is very good also, and to speak another language badly is much better than not to speak it at all. All that is required is that there should ...

... so far as the authorities have hitherto informed us, certainly do not speak the extinct Prussian, which differed from Lithuanian as a substantive language, not as a dialect. They speak true Lithuanian, only differing dialectically from that of the Prussian ...

... when we speak of its different porters or faculties, as memory, imagination, consciousness, we speak meta- phorically, likening the mind to the body, as if it had members or compartments; bchereas, in all accuracy of speech, we mean to speak of the mind ...

... only by recurring often to the same subjects and by dint, so to speak, of frequent after- touches, that I can hope to produce a tolerably faithful picture. Another class which, socially speaking, stands far above that of our peasant electors the class of ...

... quite correct. The word is ante-cessor, and means predecessor and nothing else. I remember hearing a purist in language speak of a Catholic priest as his collateral ancestor, which was perhaps a forced expression.-I remain, your obedient servant ...

... for it ahvavs-at least alvavs except vihicei physical deficiencies obstruct themi-prosecute it successfully. I speak of stage acting, and speak quite seriously. WN hv i.; it that no one can sit two hours at any of the four or five leading London theatres ...

... teaching to speak by signs is totally and unexceptionally abandoned, and each individual patient is successfully taught to speak with his lips. And the same writer says, There can be no reason why our own dumb should not be taught to speak, and so be ...

... portraits which speaks a language it is iPoz5 to mistake. Many of them share largely the propert more or less to all great works of art and nature- that Of seenitO! to draw or to absorb the spectator to themselves instead 01 being grasped, so to speak, by him ...

... There are 5,167,480 families occupying 3,766,204 houses. Of the whole popa- lation 23,958,103 speak Italian; 134,435 speak French; 20,393 speak German; 118,929 speak other languages, such as Albanese, Greek, and Slave. With regard to religion, there are 24 ...

... inconstancy; but she must speak out steadily, respectfully, and ?? this point, M. THIERS stopped to drink some water, and a long murmur arose, intermixed with a few Tres-biens. He took both with the utmost composure, and went on speaking as if he had never ...

... inconstancy; but she must speak out steadily, respectfully, and ?? this point, M. THIERS stopped to drink some water, and a long murmur arose, intermixed with a few Tres-biens. He took both with the utmost composure, and went on speaking as if he had never ...