Successful Methods of Public Speaking
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- SUCCESSFUL METHODS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING
- CONTENTS
- Successful Methods of Public Speaking
- FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
- NEW YORK AND LONDON 1919
- PREFACE
- SUCCESSFUL METHODS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING
- Requirements of Effective Speaking
- Well-known Speakers and Their Methods
- Chalmers
- John Bright
- Lord Brougham
- Edmund Burke
- Massillon
- Gladstone
- John Quincy Adams
- Fox
- Theodore Parker
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Lord Bolingbroke
- Lord Chatham
- John Philpot Curran
- Balfour
- Bonar Law
- Asquith
- Bryan
- Roosevelt
- Success Factors in Platform Speaking
- ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF MEMORIZING SPEECHES
- THE VALUE OF REPETITION
- THE NEED OF SELF-CONFIDENCE
- THE POWER OF PERSONALITY
- THE DANGER OF IMITATION
- Speech for Study, with Lesson Talk
- FEATURES OF AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS
- SPEECH FOR STUDY AT THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE OF GLADSTONE (Address of Lord Rosebery)
- STUDY OF MODEL SPEECHES
- MODEL SPEECHES, WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR THEIR STUDY
- John Stuart Mill
- Judge Story
- W. J. Fox
- William McKinley
- Edward Everett
- John Quincy Adams
- HISTORY OF PUBLIC SPEAKING
- MEN WHO HAVE MADE HISTORY IN PUBLIC SPEAKING—AND THEIR METHODS
- Demosthenes
- Cicero
- Luther
- John Knox
- Bossuet
- Bourdaloue
- Massillon
- Lord Chatham
- Burke
- Sheridan
- Charles James Fox
- Lord Brougham
- John Quincy Adams
- Patrick Henry
- Henry Clay
- Calhoun
- Daniel Webster
- Edward Everett
- Rufus Choate
- Charles Sumner
- William E. Channing
- Wendell Phillips
- George William Curtis
- Gladstone
- John Bright
- Lincoln
- Daniel O'Connell
- EXTRACTS FOR STUDY, WITH LESSON TALK
- EXAMPLES OF ORATORY AND HOW TO STUDY THEM
- Extracts for Study SPECIMENS OF ELOQUENCE
- A Study in Climax
- Suggestions to the Public Speaker
- A Study in Fervent Appeal
- A Study in Dignity and Style
- A Study in Strength and Diction
- A Study in Patriotic Feeling
- A Study in Clearness of Expression
- A Study of Oratorical Style
- A Study in Profound Thinking
- A Study of Sustained Power
- Study in Beauty of Language
- A Study in Powerful Delivery
- A Study in Purity of Style
- A Study in Common Sense and Exalted Thought
- HOW TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC[1]
- HOW THE SPEAKER MUST PREPARE HIMSELF
- HOW THE SPEAKER MUST PREPARE HIS SPEECH
- THE PART MEMORY PLAYS IN PUBLIC SPEAKING
- THE STUDY OF WORDS AND IDEAS
- ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF THE PUBLIC SPEAKER
- LEARNING TO THINK ON YOUR FEET
- Speech for Study, with Lesson Talk
- THE STYLE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
- THE STRENUOUS LIFE[2]
- ADVERTISEMENTS
- HOW TO
- Develop Self-Confidence IN SPEECH AND MANNER
- Author of "How to Argue and Win."
- FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers
- NEW YORK and LONDON
- HUMOROUS HITS
- And How to Hold an Audience By GRENVILLE KLEISER
- Author of "How to Argue and Win."
- FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers
- NEW YORK and LONDON
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