ISBN: 9780217263726

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. PERSONALITIES IK DEBATE. A FOREIGN correspondent of an American journal, who visited the British Parliament a few years ago, strikingly contrasts the courtesy of political opponents in that body with the personalities which are so common in American legislatures. He says that the moment a member rises to address the House of Commons, he seems possessed by the most refined and gentlemanly consideration for others. In speaking of antagonists he carefully guards against the slightest imputation of dishonorable motives; or if, in the heat of debate, a word of oblique significance slips from his tongue, he hastens to withdraw it, and to express his regret; nay, even in his sarcasms and home-thrusts, he is careful to mention something to the credit of the very foeman he is about to scathe. Such a thing as hurling abusive epithets, giving the lie, and, above all, threatening personal violence,--practices so common as scarcely to create a sensation in our American legislatures,--would not be tolerated for a moment. When the Earl of Derby, in an attack on Lord John Russell, likened him to Bottom the weaver, and described his policy by the two homely words, meddle and muddle, it was felt that he went to the very verge of propriety. Great as was the ascendency of Lord Palmerston in that body, it never enabled him to lord it over his 214 fellow-Commoners so far as to be uncivil to the least popular members of the House. When, on one occasion, he trespassed so far as to say impatiently of the not-overpopular Joseph Hume, If the honorable gentleman''s understanding is obtuse, it is not my fault, he was instantly brought to his senses by the reproachful murmurs of the House, and was reminded that even Lord Palmerston must respect the fine code of leg... William Mathews, Books, History, Oratory and Orators Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: S.S. Griggs in 1891 in 468 pages; Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Language Arts & Disciplines / Speech; Language Arts & Disciplines / Public Speaking;<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 290 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=17mm, Gew.=426gr, [GR: 25500 - TB/Geschichte], [SW: - History - G… More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 290 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=17mm, Gew.=426gr, [GR: 25500 - TB/Geschichte], [SW: - History - General History], Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ORATOR. /""F all the efforts of the human mind, there is no one -s which demands for its success so rare a union of mental gifts as eloquence. For its ordinary displays the prerequisites are clear perception, memory, power of statement, logic, imagination, force of will, and passion; but, for its loftiest flights, it demands a combination of the most exalted powers,? a union of the rarest faculties. Unite in one man the most varied and dissimilar gifts,? a strong and masculine understanding with a brilliant imagination; a nimble wit with a solid judgment; a prompt and tenacious memory with a lively and fertile fancy; an eye for the beauties of nature with a knowledge of the realities of life; a brain stored with the hived wisdom of the ages, and a heart swelling with emotion,? and you have the moral elements of a great orator. But even these qualifications, so seldom harmonized in one man, are not all. Eloquence is a physical as well as an intellectual product; it has to do with the body as well as with the mind. It is not a cold and voiceless enunciation of abstract truth; it is truth warm and palpitating,?reason " permeated and made red-hot with passion." It demands, therefore, a trained, penetrating, and sympathetic voice, ranging through all the keys in the scale, by which all the motions and agitations, all the shudderings and throbbings of the heart, no less than the subtlest acts, the nimblest operations of themind,? in fine, all the modifications of the moral life,? may find a tone, an accent. The eye as well as ths lips, the heaving chest and the swaying arm, the whole frame quivering with emotion, have a part; and the speech that thrills, melts, or persuades, is the result of them all combined. The orator needs, therefore, a stout...<

ISBN: 9780217263726

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[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ORATOR. /"F all the efforts of the human mind, there is no one -s which demands for its success so rare a union of mental gifts as eloquence. For its ordinary displays the prerequisites are clear perception, memory, power of statement, logic, imagination, force of will, and passion but, for its loftiest flights, it demands a combination of the most exalted powers,? a union of the rarest faculties. Unite in one man the most varied and dissimilar gifts,? a strong and masculine understanding with a brilliant imagination a nimble wit with a solid judgment a prompt and tenacious memory with a lively and fertile fancy an eye for the beauties of nature with a knowledge of the realities of life a brain stored with the hived wisdom of the ages, and a heart swelling with emotion,? and you have the moral elements of a great orator. But even these qualifications, so seldom harmonized in one man, are not all. Eloquence is a physical as well as an intellectual product it has to do with the body as well as with the mind. It is not a cold and voiceless enunciation of abstract truth it is truth warm and palpitating,?reason " permeated and made red-hot with passion." It demands, therefore, a trained, penetrating, and sympathetic voice, ranging through all the keys in the scale, by which all the motions and agitations, all the shudderings and throbbings of the heart, no less than the subtlest acts, the nimblest operations of themind,? in fine, all the modifications of the moral life,? may find a tone, an accent. The eye as well as ths lips, the heaving chest and the swaying arm, the whole frame quivering with emotion, have a part and the speech that thrills, melts, or persuades, is the result of them all combined. The orator needs, therefore, a stout...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<