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THE FUTURE OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES

... a rough approximation of English- speaking peoples all the world over in the days of Shakespeare, we realise the extraordinary fact that in 20 years the increase in the numbers of persons speaking the language we speak has been more than twenty to oue ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1885
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1903 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MR. JOHN BRIGHT ON PUBLIC SPEAKING

... You term It, is a double slavery which I could not bear. To speak without preparation, especially on great and solemn topics, is- rashness, and cannot be recom- mended. When I intend to speak on anything that seems to me important I consider what it is ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1888
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 431 | Page: 7 | Tags: News