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a-He A-It A-The A-We America attention audi audience B-He B-The beginning better breath C-The civilized classroom clear climax close common conclusion concrete contest develop Directions DISCUSSION Education effective emotion emphatic ence experience expression eyes feel formal freedom give Guinevere heart Henry Ward Beecher I-He I-The I-This imagination important impression interest introduction Jean Calas labor liberty Lincoln Liverpool look means Memorial Day ment mind mood moral needs ness occasion oratory persuasive phatic Phi Beta Kappa platform popular practice Prepare a speech present principles public speaking purpose question reserve power seek Select from printed sense sentence slavery speaker Specimen Subjects speech-making power Speech-plans spirit stand story strong student of speech-making Study success suggests suspense talk teacher theme things tion tones truth unity universal suffrage vital vocal voice Wendell Phillips words yellow journalism
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Page 298 - The assassin enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds up the ascent of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber.
Page 231 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never!
Page 128 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Page 334 - What does he do — this hero in gray with a heart of gold? Does he sit down in sullenness and despair? Not for a day. Surely God, who had stripped him of his prosperity, inspired him in his adversity. As ruin was never before so overwhelming, never was restoration swifter. The soldier stepped from the trenches into the furrow; horses that had charged Federal guns marched before the plow, and fields that ran red with hurman blood in April were green with the harvest in June...
Page 296 - A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal: "Water, water, we die of thirst." The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back, "Cast down your bucket where you are.
Page 333 - Let me picture to you the footsore Confederate soldier, as buttoning up in his faded gray jacket the parole which was to bear testimony to his children of his fidelity and faith, he turned his face southward from Appomattox in April, 1865. Think of him as ragged...
Page 129 - So you creak it, and I want the heart to scold. Dear dead women, with such hair, too — what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old.
Page 103 - I have, Senators, believed from the first, that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion.
Page 230 - ... which surround it. The desperate state of our arms abroad is in part known. No man thinks more highly of them than I do. I love and honor the English troops. I know their virtues and their valor.
Page 275 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger ? Will it be the next week, or the next year ? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house...