Reading and Speaking, Familiar Talks to Those who Would Speak Well in Public

accent acute accent articulation audience Beecher beginning Bend breath CHAPTER circumflex colon comma Conservatism Declarative sentence Delfshaven delivery Downward Slide elocution eloquence emphasis Emphatic Sweeps emphatic word endeavor EXAMPLES exclamation exercise expressed or understood feeling GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS gestures give hand hear heard hearers heart Henry Henry Ward Beecher imperfect sense Indefinite Interrogative inflection intermediate pauses interrogation mark lecture liberty Loose sentence lungs manner matter midriff mind mouth nation natural Negative Compact never orator oratory Partial Fall pause of imperfect Perfect Fall physical earnestness practice preceding proposition public speaking punctuation reader rhetorical pause RUFUS CHOATE rules Second Sweep semicolon sentence or member Simple sentences Single Compact speaker spoke stand student teacher tell tence thing thou thought tion tone tongue Toussaint L'Ouverture truth Upward Slide verb voice Waving Slide Wendell Phillips young