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... thought not Demosthenes , nor Cicero , nor Chatham , nor Fox , nor Clay , nor Webster . Day and night , and year after year , it was their study , their strenu- . ous endeavor , to find the way to say the thing which was already ...
... thought not Demosthenes , nor Cicero , nor Chatham , nor Fox , nor Clay , nor Webster . Day and night , and year after year , it was their study , their strenu- . ous endeavor , to find the way to say the thing which was already ...
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... thought . Speaking , it should never be forgotten , is giving , not receiving ; and the wide - open hand and free palm , not the contracted , pouch - like paw , are the proper visible language of nature in human speech . Force in ...
... thought . Speaking , it should never be forgotten , is giving , not receiving ; and the wide - open hand and free palm , not the contracted , pouch - like paw , are the proper visible language of nature in human speech . Force in ...
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... thought that , on his success or failure , meas- ures vital to that community may depend , precludes every association of levity or trivial character , or low familiarity of address . He is , by his very position , elevated to a moral ...
... thought that , on his success or failure , meas- ures vital to that community may depend , precludes every association of levity or trivial character , or low familiarity of address . He is , by his very position , elevated to a moral ...
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... thought , —as in commencing new heads of a subject and new paragraphs of composition , — is one of the most obvious aids to freedom of manner in the speaker , and to relief of attention on the part of the hearer . A careful regard to ...
... thought , —as in commencing new heads of a subject and new paragraphs of composition , — is one of the most obvious aids to freedom of manner in the speaker , and to relief of attention on the part of the hearer . A careful regard to ...
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... thought , the attitude is naturally that of repose or tran- quillity , mentioned before , and so continues , till , in the progress of the subject , feeling begins to glow and language becomes ani- mated , warm , or energetic , and ...
... thought , the attitude is naturally that of repose or tran- quillity , mentioned before , and so continues , till , in the progress of the subject , feeling begins to glow and language becomes ani- mated , warm , or energetic , and ...
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