Lanterna Rally

Author: Joseph A. Mosher

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-09

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781528433976

Excerpt from The Essentials of Extempore Speaking The above represents a noble and inspiring conception of the speaker; to say anything further on that phase of the subject would, I am afraid, be in the nature of an anti - Climax. But such a point of View is not calculated to minister to the requirements of the great body of students, teachers, lawyers, doctors, businessmen, and Simia lar everyday people who will never have occasion to scale the heights of eloquence, but who often need to express their ideas clearly, forcefully, and attractively to their fellowmen. It is to such that the following pages are addressed. The material used represents, in the main, a condensation and arrangement of the notes and criticisms which the writer has found most helpful to classes during ten years devoted chiefly to helping men - students, business and professional men - to develop their ability to Speak effectively. One of the convictions which this experience has instilled is that in teaching public speaking it is easy to play a part in making over-instruction the bane of modern education, as Professor A. M. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.