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... be in the power of all of us, but simplicity and straightforwardness are. Write much as you would speak, speak as you think. If with your inferiors, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, not finer. Be what you say, and within the rules of ...
... HINTS ON SPEAKING. A French axiom says, Fire in the exordium of an address is fire in straw. Hook once preached a sermon on obedience to Clrtrchly autht..rity, from the text, Hear the Church. Whately sugqested as a corrective to such mutilation of ...
... SPEAK NOT OF TRIFLEB. Speak not of trifles light as air, Or froth of ocean's pride; For things. on which no thought we spare, The mightiest forces hide. As slumbers, in the clod, the fire, As lingers music in the lyre; So future destinies are born. From ...
... Effects of His Speaking. Macaulay spoke only five times in all during the sessions • 1846 and 1847; but whenever, and on whatever subject, opened his lips, the columns of Hansard are thickly studded with compliments paid to him either in retrospect or ...
... speaking. they did _ bakers, ...
... shakes his head. Do you speak English? Boy repeats the shake. Do you =French ? Another shake. Do Tx' speak an ? Another waggle of the head. How old are you ? Another shake. Have you parents? Shake repeated. Do you speak Italian? Another waggle ...
... rhetoric in this; I say, let him first of all learn to speak easily and fluently, as well and as sensibly as he can, no doubt; but at any rate let him learn to speak. This is to eloquence or good public speaking what the being able to talk in a child is to correct ...
... SIR WILFRID LAWSON SPEAKING. The second session of the tenth annual meeting of the Council of the National Liberal Federation was held in the I .Albert-hall, Nottingham, on Wednesday week. The chair as taken by Sir James Kitson (president of the Federation ...
... ebniu THE HUMOURS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING. Probably more humorous blunders are perpetrated by men occupying the chair at meetings than by any other speakers. Most readers will be able to recall numerous instances. here are a few examples :—The presiding &ening ...
... party advocated Local Veto they were speaking in favour of something that could not be said to be lip in a balloon. (Hear, hear.) They were not discussing a matter that was very remote. So far as the whole English-speaking world was concerned, the whole trend ...
... HUMOURS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING. BY COrNCIT.TiIIi JOAPII There is no donht that one great need of a sneaker is to he able to think while he in on his legs the audience. While uttering one sentence he I should he able to think of the next. is possihip. hut ...
... bars. To speak of this . as oompensation as ordinarily understood is quite misleading. Compensation implies the provision of money by the nation or by communities, while this would be a matter confined to the liquor interest alone. Yet it was at ...