The American Debater :bbeing a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public DebateIvison & Phinney, 1855 - 323 էջ |
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... course of instruction , in the form of question and answer , designed to render him familiar with what is aptly called the common code of Parlia mentary law . But , when well provided in all other respects , there is a particular duty ...
... course of instruction , in the form of question and answer , designed to render him familiar with what is aptly called the common code of Parlia mentary law . But , when well provided in all other respects , there is a particular duty ...
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... course , share with the orator in every other field of oratory . He must , for example , be accounted an upright man ; for otherwise his arguments , however forcible , his illustra- tions however clear , his delivery however graceful ...
... course , share with the orator in every other field of oratory . He must , for example , be accounted an upright man ; for otherwise his arguments , however forcible , his illustra- tions however clear , his delivery however graceful ...
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... course he is pursuing . He will be at first , in- deed , repressed to a greater degree than another by emotions of bashfulness ; but it will be more speedily and more completely subdued ; the very system pur- sued , since it forbids all ...
... course he is pursuing . He will be at first , in- deed , repressed to a greater degree than another by emotions of bashfulness ; but it will be more speedily and more completely subdued ; the very system pur- sued , since it forbids all ...
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... course as- sumed , that the party receiving them has an earnest desire to become a good extemporaneous speaker , and is , therefore , willing and ready , as far as may be prac- ticable , to follow them out in a spirit of zeal and per ...
... course as- sumed , that the party receiving them has an earnest desire to become a good extemporaneous speaker , and is , therefore , willing and ready , as far as may be prac- ticable , to follow them out in a spirit of zeal and per ...
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... course of instruction in the Rules of Order ob- served in deliberative assemblies . For reasons else- where * assigned , these rules deservedly claim the most careful attention . They are , indeed , of almost universal applicability ...
... course of instruction in the Rules of Order ob- served in deliberative assemblies . For reasons else- where * assigned , these rules deservedly claim the most careful attention . They are , indeed , of almost universal applicability ...
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Էջ 76 - When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, for the previous question, to postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, to postpone indefinitely; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged: and nc motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to postpone indefinitely.
Էջ 289 - Convention, that as soon as the Conventions of nine States shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a Day on which Electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same, and a Day on which the Electors should assemble to vote for the President, and the Time and Place for commencing Proceedings under this Constitution. That after such Publication the Electors should be appointed, and the Senators and Representatives elected...
Էջ 291 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union...
Էջ 291 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution which we now...
Էջ 289 - That it is the opinion of this convention, that as soon as the conventions of nine states shall have ratified this constitution, the United States in Congress assembled, should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the states which shall have ratified the same...
Էջ 171 - Glorious, indeed, is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.
Էջ 289 - States, with a request that it might " be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the. recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification.
Էջ 99 - Hats., 132, 133,~\ And this is considered to be not in the form of an amendment to the question, but as alternative or successive originals. In all cases of time or number, we must consider whether the larger comprehends the lesser, as in a question to what day a postponement shall be, the number of a committee, amount of a fine, term of an imprisonment, term of irredeemability of a loan, or the terminus in quern in any other case; then the question must begin a maximo.
Էջ 99 - ... on the limitation of the rate of interest, on what day the session shall be closed by adjournment, on what day the next shall commence, when an act shall commence or the terminus a quo in any other case where the question must begin a minima.
Էջ 250 - He shall preserve order and decorum; may speak to points of order in preference to other members, rising from his seat for that purpose, and shall decide questions of order, subject to an appeal to the House by any two members; on which appeal no member shall speak more than once, unless by leave of the House.