Pulpit Elocution: Comprising Remarks on the Effect of Manner in Public Discourse ; the Elements of Elocution Applied to the Reading of the Scriptures, Hymns, and Sermons ; with Observations on the Principles of Gesture ; and a Selection of Exercises in Reading and SpeakingWarren F. Draper, 1861 - 413 páginas |
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... ment of the hair , has vividly portrayed a state of mind which artificial language is too inflexible to express . Written words , even when they embody the general idea , the substantial meaning , are often unable to ex- hibit those ...
... ment of the hair , has vividly portrayed a state of mind which artificial language is too inflexible to express . Written words , even when they embody the general idea , the substantial meaning , are often unable to ex- hibit those ...
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... ment must lie buried in the bosom of the speaker : the hearer fails , just so far , to participate in it . With many preachers , the exercise of reading the Scriptures and the hymns , appears to be a mere form . This is a great loss to ...
... ment must lie buried in the bosom of the speaker : the hearer fails , just so far , to participate in it . With many preachers , the exercise of reading the Scriptures and the hymns , appears to be a mere form . This is a great loss to ...
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... ment . The oratorical taste , too , can be cultivated to a very high degree , so that the body shall enter into the most delicate sympathy with the mind and heart , and faithfully symbolize to every other eye and ear all the wonderful ...
... ment . The oratorical taste , too , can be cultivated to a very high degree , so that the body shall enter into the most delicate sympathy with the mind and heart , and faithfully symbolize to every other eye and ear all the wonderful ...
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... ment , which more than any other production of Divine skill , has shown how " fearfully and wonderfully " the members of the human frame are formed , in adaptation to the purposes and capacities of the soul . - The preacher who neglects ...
... ment , which more than any other production of Divine skill , has shown how " fearfully and wonderfully " the members of the human frame are formed , in adaptation to the purposes and capacities of the soul . - The preacher who neglects ...
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... ment which is to be read or spoken . The homely adage , that practice makes perfect , is in nothing more true than in this particular case . Nor can there be a greater mis- take than that which most persons fall into , as regards the ...
... ment which is to be read or spoken . The homely adage , that practice makes perfect , is in nothing more true than in this particular case . Nor can there be a greater mis- take than that which most persons fall into , as regards the ...
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action Andover Theological Seminary appropriate attitude audience beauty Bibliotheca Sacra body breath character Christ Circumflex cultivation culture darkness death deep Demosthenes discourse divine earnest earth effect elocution elocutionist eloquence emotion Empassioned emphasis eternal exercise expression father fault feeling force genuine gesture give glory glottis grace grave habit hand hath hearers heart heaven human human voice hymn impart impressive inspiring Isaiah language light living Lord manner mannerist ment mind Minor Prophets Minor Third moderate modes Movement natural o'er orator oratory Orotund Quality Pauses Pitch poetry practice praise preacher preaching Princeton Review Psalm public speaking pulpit Pure Tone reading render sacred Scripture Semitone sentiment sermon solemn soul sound speaker speaking spirit student style Subdued sublime taste thee thine things thou thought tion tone true truth unto utterance vivid vocal voice whole word
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Página 169 - Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her...
Página 248 - 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 — for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing — ye in heaven; On earth join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Página 207 - 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 214 - 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 329 - Hark, the glad sound ! the Saviour comes! The Saviour promised long ! Let every heart prepare a throne, And every voice a song. 2...
Página 339 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.
Página 266 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Página 328 - SWEET is the work, my God, my King, To praise thy name, give thanks and sing ; To show thy love by morning light, And talk of all thy truth at night.
Página 302 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Página 275 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!