The American Debater :bbeing a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public DebateIvison & Phinney, 1855 - 323 էջ |
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... exercises , and better calculated than most other exercises in speaking and writing , to awaken interest and secure pro- ficiency , this work is commended as a suitable text - book , wherewith the subject may be brought up in regular ...
... exercises , and better calculated than most other exercises in speaking and writing , to awaken interest and secure pro- ficiency , this work is commended as a suitable text - book , wherewith the subject may be brought up in regular ...
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... exercise of wisdom in relation to what is useful , what is expedient , what is best to be done . The occasions for the use of deliberative eloquence are now more numerous and important than they ever have been in any previous age of the ...
... exercise of wisdom in relation to what is useful , what is expedient , what is best to be done . The occasions for the use of deliberative eloquence are now more numerous and important than they ever have been in any previous age of the ...
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... exercise their talents in the composition and delivery of set orations or lectures adapted to particular times and occasions . But to speak in a deliberative assembly , to enlighten and sway the minds of men engaged in the consideration ...
... exercise their talents in the composition and delivery of set orations or lectures adapted to particular times and occasions . But to speak in a deliberative assembly , to enlighten and sway the minds of men engaged in the consideration ...
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... exercise is not only attended with no adequate benefit , but is , generally speaking , a positive injury ; since it generates in the speaker himself habits unfa- vorable to close thinking and accurate composition . The error underlying ...
... exercise is not only attended with no adequate benefit , but is , generally speaking , a positive injury ; since it generates in the speaker himself habits unfa- vorable to close thinking and accurate composition . The error underlying ...
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... exercise of his powers , as an extemporaneous orator ; while he , in whom carelessness and idleness have fixed their abode , has in him two evil spirits , too powerful to be exor- cised by the mere practice of penmanship . Written ...
... exercise of his powers , as an extemporaneous orator ; while he , in whom carelessness and idleness have fixed their abode , has in him two evil spirits , too powerful to be exor- cised by the mere practice of penmanship . Written ...
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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.