The Science and Art of Effective Debating: A Text Book for High Schools and CollegesNoble and Noble, 1925 - 322 pages |
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... lawyer , the preach- er , the teacher , the citizen ; in short , to any one who is called upon - and who is not ? -to urge the acceptance of his ideas upon a hearer , or to refute ideas offered in opposition thereto . In our schools and ...
... lawyer , the preach- er , the teacher , the citizen ; in short , to any one who is called upon - and who is not ? -to urge the acceptance of his ideas upon a hearer , or to refute ideas offered in opposition thereto . In our schools and ...
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... lawyer , minister , teacher , salesman for every one -there is no form of public speaking that is of greater value than skill in oral argument . Scores of public men have gone on record by attesting to the value of debating in the old ...
... lawyer , minister , teacher , salesman for every one -there is no form of public speaking that is of greater value than skill in oral argument . Scores of public men have gone on record by attesting to the value of debating in the old ...
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... lawyer , and said : " Mr. Mason , I have seen an angel from heaven who told me that your client was innocent . " " Yes , " replied Mason , " and did he tell you how to prove it ? " " How can I prove it ? " is the constantly recurring ...
... lawyer , and said : " Mr. Mason , I have seen an angel from heaven who told me that your client was innocent . " " Yes , " replied Mason , " and did he tell you how to prove it ? " " How can I prove it ? " is the constantly recurring ...
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... lawyer may get a prisoner free by discovering a flaw in the indictment ; or he may decline to put his client on the witness- stand in his own defense . But it is well known that this does not ordinarily convince the public of the ...
... lawyer may get a prisoner free by discovering a flaw in the indictment ; or he may decline to put his client on the witness- stand in his own defense . But it is well known that this does not ordinarily convince the public of the ...
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... lawyer and in all ques- tions of fact . It is very conclusive and convinc- ing . " Facts are stubborn things " and prove by their mere presence . Even the disciple Thomas was convinced of the resurrection of Jesus when he was permitted ...
... lawyer and in all ques- tions of fact . It is very conclusive and convinc- ing . " Facts are stubborn things " and prove by their mere presence . Even the disciple Thomas was convinced of the resurrection of Jesus when he was permitted ...
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Page 59 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 59 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman ? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Page 59 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it ; as he was valiant, I honour him : but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Page 42 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord fomented from principle in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of...
Page 23 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Page 150 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 145 - ... your government. These are, to change that spirit, as inconvenient, by removing the causes ; to prosecute it as criminal ; or to comply with it as necessary. I would not be guilty of an imperfect enumeration. I can think of but these three. Another has, indeed, been started — that of giving up the colonies ; but it met so slight a reception, that I do not think myself obliged to dwell a great while upon it. It is nothing but a little sally of anger, like the frowardness of peevish children,...
Page 38 - Whose prerogative is it to decide on the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of the laws?
Page 97 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 169 - Some of you delight to flaunt in our faces the warning against sectional parties given by Washington in his Farewell Address. Less than eight years before Washington gave that warning, he had, as President of the United States, approved and signed an act of Congress enforcing the prohibition of slavery in the Northwestern Territory, which act embodied the policy of the government upon that subject up to and at the very moment he...