... this work simply to impart to his readers some hints on the art of speaking, but in the course of his periormnance be became Bo imspressedt with the conviction that the power of speaking well wan indissolubly connected with ability to read and write well ...

... ignored- Words of cheer for Poland. By our liberties endeared, Speak for outraged Poland. Sy John Milton's wvords of flame, And our Hiamliden's patriot name, ,By oppression o'er the same, Speak a word fur Poland. Words of truth are swords of might, Loud ...

... matter I NoW I trust. Iind eyes, unto your tale hall-told, Ye speak because ye must I Too oft will heavy laws constrain The lips, compelled to bear A message false; too often fain To speak but what they dare; Full oft will words, will smiles betray, But ...

... audience, he did not refer at length, but passed on to speak of electricity, and as a preface to his remarks on this point, explained how electricity might be generated. He then went on to speak of the electric light, which he said had not yet been utilised ...

... aleqa 1.-Hit one of your own size, Charity. Whene'er I take my walks abroad, How many poor see; And 'cos I never speaks to them, They never speaks to me. If ?? breeds contempt. The Train. 'Tis the voice of the sluggard, I hear him complain, You have woke me ...

... not think the comparative fabilure of this evening's representation is in any degree attribntable to that cause. Mr. Mathews speaks French better than almost any Englishman I ever heard. Indeed, his easy, grace- ful, and singularly correct pronunciationmight ...

... are able to write accurately and elegantly-how few can read aloud in a manner at all tolerable, not to say pleasing.' As to speaking, it is only two or three here and there-the rari nantes in gur'gitc nasto- who can rise to their feet and utter a cotuple ...

... But tkese echoes ne'er shall capture The heart which in my bosom dweU& I hate the cringing, coward race Who dare uot act nor speak heir mind, Their sycophantic ways disgrace Tito name of all things humankind. How I despise the flattering cry Which cjmes ...

... Paul's Epistles, all breathing a most earnest spirit, and ?? often by great pithiness of expression. In h1s firt dis- course, speaking of the unsettled religious tendencies of the time, continually oscillating from scepticism to superstition, an d from super- ...

... . 11OMxE bo OWthat ble ssed si'old ?? the ear I In it~rceoll~eeionsblend: ?? lt tella of eblidhood's scenes so d eai. And speaks, of mapay &o ~ltlihl Irled nd. Qr1 through tbQ world, whete'er we roam, ?? : *Though souls bq pnec aittl llp be klad, WXhe ...

... art of public speaking. When we speak our sermons-which may be said to be our charac- teristic national fashion-we speak them, it may be, with too much harsh, strong, boisterous bellowing, and convulsive wriggling on occasions; but we speak often with a ...

... down upon Carntrvon? Perhaps it is. of no great importance whether we know when we are or are not speaking British, so that we are intelligible when we do speak. There was a time, how- ever, when an enthusiastic Welsh lexicographer Dr. John Davies, compiled ...