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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: in. PHYSICAL EAKNESTNESS. With an adequate use of his will, an adequate knowing wliat he is about, the speaker will make a right use of his physical organization?will be physically, as well as morally or spiritually, in earnest. If he makes no use of his will, forgets it and thinks only of his subject, or of the laws of emphasis taught by the elocution books, he will make no use, or he will make a misuse of his physical organization. If the will be dormant, the physical organization will be no assistance to him, will be a, hindrance to him the rather. An inert physical organization is, indeed, conclusive evidence of a torpid will. Can there be a, more conclusive proof that the understanding of the speaker comes miserably short of its duty than the fact that it takes no account of physical earnestness, or the working of the body to the advantage of the mind, or the creating of a voice for the service of the intellect ? We are always to bear in mind that an impression is produced by the speaker quite apart from and often in spite of the words he utters. It is a mesmeric influence, it is feeling, reflection, An Animal thought produced by the animal galvanic B vamc battery on two legs. An influence goes Two Legs, out of the speaker into the hearer. Something went out of Bonaparte into his soldiers; so his soldiers said. Doubtless the great warrior was a greatanimal galvanic battery on two legs, or six legs, counting the horse's. I have no doubt Shiel found it greatly to the advantage of his animal galvanic battery on two legs to leap to his legs as he did, and rush to the clerk's table and pound it. Or, perhaps, he did it to cover his confusion or overcome his stage-fright, which is the curse of many a speaker who is criticised for presumption and conceit. Mr. Gladsto...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217728034 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217728030 |
| Weight | 0.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 94 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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