The Art of Speech ...D. Appleton, 1879 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 32
עמוד 9
... speaker ; then , through the agency of instinct , invention , memory , and the laws of association , the two persons have the same thought . Thus , this act of speech , which seemed at first so very simple , becomes upon reflection ...
... speaker ; then , through the agency of instinct , invention , memory , and the laws of association , the two persons have the same thought . Thus , this act of speech , which seemed at first so very simple , becomes upon reflection ...
עמוד 44
... speaker carefully to distin- guish between words which are sometimes used synonymously . As culture advances , languages tend to make all synonyms merely approximate . Atten- tion is called to the following verbs , which by all scholars ...
... speaker carefully to distin- guish between words which are sometimes used synonymously . As culture advances , languages tend to make all synonyms merely approximate . Atten- tion is called to the following verbs , which by all scholars ...
עמוד 47
... speaker to give with definiteness and elegance the largest number of ideas with the fewest and shortest words possible . The presence and working of this law are seen in the fact that , as civilization advances , shorter and fewer words ...
... speaker to give with definiteness and elegance the largest number of ideas with the fewest and shortest words possible . The presence and working of this law are seen in the fact that , as civilization advances , shorter and fewer words ...
עמוד 49
... De Quincey . The excessive and indefinite use of which , and which , and the like , betrays either a lack of taste or of literary culture in the speaker . " " Even words in former good use are now 5 LAWS OF SPEECH . 49.
... De Quincey . The excessive and indefinite use of which , and which , and the like , betrays either a lack of taste or of literary culture in the speaker . " " Even words in former good use are now 5 LAWS OF SPEECH . 49.
עמוד 50
... speaker always uses fewer and choicer words than the young orator . The language of Webster during the last half of his public life was more se- lect and precise than it was previously . He employed fewer words to convey the same amount ...
... speaker always uses fewer and choicer words than the young orator . The language of Webster during the last half of his public life was more se- lect and precise than it was previously . He employed fewer words to convey the same amount ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
accent adjective adverb Æsop allegory Allophylian Anglo-Saxon Aryan Aryan family BALFOUR STEWART beautiful belonging better called Celt CHAPTER Chaucer Cicero clause common composition compound connection consonant correct definition Demosthenes diction Dryden eloquence employed English language English speech English tongue euphonic expression fact figurative speech Figures of Oratory foreign given grammar Greek guage harmony hearer Hence human idea idiom illustration instance language Latin Law of Economy likewise linguistic literature long sentences Lord Luke Macaulay Matt Max Müller metaphor metonymy mind narration natural NOTE noun object original parables person phrase plural poems poetic speech poetic-prose speech poetry preacher principle pronoun prose Quintilian repetition requires rhetorical rhyme rules Sanskrit Saxon says Semitic sense sermon Shakspeare simile singular sound speak speaker student style syllables tence termed things thou thought tion tive usage verb verbal vocabulary vowel writer
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 242 - ... him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death...
עמוד 60 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
עמוד 129 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
עמוד 232 - To this succeeded that licentiousness which entered with the restoration, and, from infecting our religion and morals, fell to corrupt our language ; which last was not like to be much improved by those who at that time made up the court of king Charles the Second ; either such...
עמוד 35 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon...
עמוד 35 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.
עמוד 242 - The deed was executed with a degree of self-possession and steadiness, equal to the wickedness with which it was planned. The circumstances, now clearly in evidence, spread out the whole scene before us. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace.
עמוד 49 - Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said, I am void of fear in this matter; prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal den, that thou shalt go no further; here will I spill thy soul.
עמוד 61 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we ; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
עמוד 129 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.