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Henry Dickson. HOW TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC
HOW TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC
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Table of Contents
PART I
CHAPTER I. Preliminary Steps
CHAPTER II. Wit, Humor, Pathos, Climaxes and Methods of Great Orators and Lecturers
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
Roosevelt the Orator
CHAPTER III. Securing the Confidence of the Audience
CHAPTER IV. The Peroration: The Climax: The Closing
CHAPTER V. The Value of Repetition and Suggestion
CHAPTER VI. How to Make Speeches That Will Have Effect
Gesture the Universal Language
Some Speakers’ “Don’ts and Dos”
Brevity a Winning Quality
Many “Big” Men Poor Orators
Public Speaking a Profession
Oratory Superior to Professions
CHAPTER VII. How to be Heard When Speaking in Public
CHAPTER VIII. Debating
Public Speaking and Debating in American Colleges
PART II
CHAPTER IX. Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE
CHAPTER X. The Study of Shakespeare
CHAPTER XI. Shakespearean Quotations for Public Speakers Representing Every Play Written By the Dramatist
AMBITION—AUTHORITY
CONSCIENCE
CHARITY—MERCY
DEATH AND THE FUTURE—ETERNITY
FOR GIVENESS—PARDON
FRIENDSHIP
FALSEHOOD—FLATTERY—DECEIT
GRATITUDE—INGRATITUDE
HEAVEN—HELL
HYPOCRISY—INSINCERITY
IGNORANCE
JUDGMENT
JESUS—CHRIST—SAVIOUR
JUSTICE—INJUSTICE
LIFE-TIME
LOVE—LUST
MAN
MEMORY
MISCELLANEOUS
NATURE’S LESSONS
PRAYER—PROVIDENCE
PEACE
PURITY—HONOR—COURAGE—RECTITUDE
REPENTANCE—PENITENCE
REMORSE
REVENGE—HATE
SOUL
SUICIDE
SLANDER—MALICE
THE WORLD
CHAPTER XII. Scripture and Shakespeare Parallels
PARALLEL PASSAGES
PART III
CHAPTER XIII. Ready-Made Speechlets, Toasts, Quotations, Anecdotes for Every Occasion
INTRODUCTORY
ABOUT FRATERNAL ORDERS
FRATERNITY, THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN
FRATERNITY AND BUSINESS
ORGANIZATION AND ATTENDANCE
BEING SUDDENLY ASKED TO SPEAK
FAREWELL REMARKS
TOAST—TO THE LADIES
STARTLETS FOR SPEECHLETS
FRATERNAL TOASTS
TOASTS
FRATERNITY OPENS THE GATES OF OUR HEARTS
THE SUN’S RAYS OF FRATERNITY
HARSH WORDS
TO MOTHER
RIP VAN WINKLE
TO THE NEXT MEETING
TO YOU
TO EVERY FATE
TO FATHER TIME
TO THE CHURCH
TO TO-DAY
TO TO-DAY
TOASTS—PATRIOTIC
GOT THE BEST OF THEM ALL
THE ROYAL CORN
THE SOUL
PARALLEL PROVERBS
TO THE END
PART IV
CHAPTER XIV. Masterpieces of Oratory, Poetry, Choice Selections, Etc
THOMAS JEFFERSON
INGERSOLL’S VISION OF THE WAR
SPARTACUS TO THE GLADIATORS
THE MASTERPIECE OF GOD. ELBERT HUBBARD
ELMER E. ROGERS ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN
LIBERTY
GREATNESS OF THE UNIVERSE
READING FOR THE THOUGHT
LIBERTY OR DEATH
ORIENT YOURSELF
“THE TREE OUR OLDEST SERVANT”
THE ISLE OF LONG AGO
THANATOPSIS
THE COUNTRY CHURCHYARD
AS I CAME DOWN FROM LEBANON
PICTURES OF MEMORY
SANDALPHON
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS
THE PROMISED LAND TO-MORROW
THE SCULPTOR BOY
COLUMBUS
THE IMMORTALITY OF SONG
COMMITTING TO MEMORY
PART V
Self-Improvement Through Public Speaking. and If You Can Talk Well (by Orison Swett Marden)
Self-Improvement Through Public Speaking
If You Can Talk Well
Newly Selected Illustrations for Speakers
Introduction
Celebrated Passages from the Best Orations and Writings
Over One Thousand Topics for Orations, Speeches, Essays, Etc
Over One Thousand Topics for Orations, Speeches, Essays, Etc
Model Questions for Debate—Preparation of Programs
“Lives of Great Men Oft Remind Us”
Stepping Stones to Commercial Success
An Evening With Shakespeare
Memory
THE UNREMEMBERED FRAGMENTS OF A LOST MEMORY