Pulpit Elocution: Comprising Suggestions on the Importance of Study; Remarks on the Effect of Manner in Speaking; the Rules of Reading, Exemplified from the Scriptures, Hymns, and Sermons; Observations on the Principles of Gesture; and a Selection of Pieces for Practice in Reading and SpeakingAllen, Morrill and Wardwell, 1846 - 408 páginas |
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... fault of misarticulating a single letter , may effectually vitiate a speaker's habit of enunciation ; a single ungainly trick of gesture , may render his whole manner ridiculous . How often is a gross and glaring fault the pre ...
... fault of misarticulating a single letter , may effectually vitiate a speaker's habit of enunciation ; a single ungainly trick of gesture , may render his whole manner ridiculous . How often is a gross and glaring fault the pre ...
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... faults , and for the acqui- sition of the most important traits of a good elocution . The student of theology , who has yet the susceptibility of youthful life upon him , and the leisure to cultivate his pow- ers , and form his manner ...
... faults , and for the acqui- sition of the most important traits of a good elocution . The student of theology , who has yet the susceptibility of youthful life upon him , and the leisure to cultivate his pow- ers , and form his manner ...
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... faults ? Habit has made the sound of his voice natural and true to his Culture alone can correct such faults . * ear . The preacher , who neglects the cultivation of his voice , suf- fers , sometimes , to a peculiar extent , the ...
... faults ? Habit has made the sound of his voice natural and true to his Culture alone can correct such faults . * ear . The preacher , who neglects the cultivation of his voice , suf- fers , sometimes , to a peculiar extent , the ...
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... faults in a few weeks , and to substitute for his errors a chaste and correct manner of pro- nouncing , and for his hurried , confused utterance an accurate , clear , distinct enunciation . The undisciplined speaker frequently exhibits ...
... faults in a few weeks , and to substitute for his errors a chaste and correct manner of pro- nouncing , and for his hurried , confused utterance an accurate , clear , distinct enunciation . The undisciplined speaker frequently exhibits ...
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... fault is sufficient- ly ridiculous to ears not indurated to it , by the effect of cus- tom . But the speaker who makes it , has never dreamed of its existence in his personal habits ; and he goes on , from year to year , announcing ...
... fault is sufficient- ly ridiculous to ears not indurated to it , by the effect of cus- tom . But the speaker who makes it , has never dreamed of its existence in his personal habits ; and he goes on , from year to year , announcing ...
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Página 191 - The sons also of them that afflicted | thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Página 306 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 204 - Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom...
Página 289 - Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Página 198 - Having, then gifts, differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith ; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation : he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Página 326 - Dear, dying Lamb, Thy precious blood Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed Church of God Be saved to sin no more.
Página 237 - Thus wondrous fair: thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye Sons of Light, Angels...
Página 254 - Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills ; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, " Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob ; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths : " for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Página 205 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach...
Página 312 - We'll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise; And earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill Thy courts with sounding praise. 5 Wide as the world is Thy command, Vast as eternity Thy love; Firm as a rock Thy truth must stand, When rolling years shall cease to move.