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" In a word, to feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence, properly so called, which I can offer. "
Mental Discipline: With Reference to the Acquisition and Communication of ... - Page 213
by Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1847 - 320 pages
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 3; Volume 25

1843 - 668 pages
...or sentiments with which he is moved into the breast of another." Again, " In a word, to feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence properly so called." He is more explicit in another passage : " Be convinced of the truth of the object,...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...voice, here; a falling", there ; and a circumflex, elsewhere. Dr. Goldsmith says, that " to feel our subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence." It is certain, that in order to be eloquent, we must surrender ourselves to the spirk that stirs within...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 29

1872 - 882 pages
...becomes timid, he sinks. Several rhetoricians have said, in the aphoristic words of Oliver Goldsmith, that " to feel one's subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence." Now perfect love casteth out all such fear as brings *; torment " and confusion of mind. The desire...
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The Works of Henry Ware, Jr: Miscellaneous writings

Henry Ware - 1846 - 432 pages
...absorb and agitate the mind, that call forth those bursts of elo• De Or. iii. 31. quence by wliicli men are remembered as powerful orators, and that give...have regard to it, and never encumber himself nor distress his hearers with the attempt to interest them in a subject which excites at the moment only...
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Practical Elocution

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pages
...voice, here ; a falling, there ; and a circumflex, elsewhere. Dr. Goldsmith says, that " to feel our subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence." It is certain, that in order to be eloquent, we must surrender ourselves to the spirit that stirs within...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...not feel, only prevents his rising nto that passion he would seem to feel. lq a word, to feel your ur pr prolerly so called, which I can offrr. Examine a writer of genius on the most beautiful parts of hit...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 602 pages
...not feel, only prevents his 'rising into that passion he would seem to feel. In a word, to feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence, properly so called, which I can offer. Examine a writer of genius on the most beautiful parts of his...
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English grammar and style

Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 pages
...not feel, only prevents his rising into that passion. he would seem to fcel. In a word, to fcel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence, properly so called, which I can offer. Examine a writer of genius on the most beautiful parts of his...
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 4

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 584 pages
...or sentiments with which he is moved into tie breast of another." Again : " In a word, to feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence properly so called." He is more explicit in another passage : " Be convinced of the truth of the subject,...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a Life and Notes, Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 pages
...not feel, only prevents his rising into that passion he would seem to feel. In a word, to feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence, properly so called, which I can offer. Examine a writer of genius on the most beautiful parts of his...
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