item: #1 of 11
          id: 10639
      author: None
       title: Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study
        date: None
       words: 13457
      flesch: 74
     summary: * * * Listen to the voice of justice and of reason; it cries to us that human judgments are never certain enough to warrant society in giving death to a man convicted by other men liable to error. I sometimes think that great men are like great mountains, and that we do not appreciate their magnitude while we are close to them.
    keywords: argument; country; day; duty; fact; god; liberty; life; lord; man; men; people; point; question; reason; right; time
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        item: #2 of 11
          id: 14274
      author: Lincoln, Abraham
       title: Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections)
        date: None
       words: 44129
      flesch: 65
     summary: But negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Any offer of terms made by any man or men within that range, in opposition to that army, is simply nothing for the present, because such man or men have no power whatever to enforce their side of a compromise, if one were made with them.
    keywords: address; amendment; authority; case; congress; constitution; country; decision; douglas; government; judge; law; lincoln; man; national; new; people; power; present; president; public; question; right; slavery; slaves; speech; states; subject; territories; territory; time; union; united; war; years
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        item: #3 of 11
          id: 14721
      author: Lincoln, Abraham
       title: Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865
        date: None
       words: 91014
      flesch: 69
     summary: With some, the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself and the product of his labour; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men and the product of other men's labour. [Sensation.] In Kentucky--my State--in 1849, on a test vote, the mighty influence of Henry Clay and many other good men there could not get a symptom of expression in favour of gradual emancipation on a plain issue of marching toward the light of civilization with Ohio and Illinois; but the State of Boone and Hardin and Henry Clay, with a _nigger_ under each arm, took the black trail toward the deadly swamps of barbarism.
    keywords: case; congress; constitution; country; court; day; decision; declaration; douglas; free; general; good; government; illinois; judge; judge douglas; know; labour; law; letter; lincoln; man; men; nation; national; negro; new; party; people; place; policy; power; principle; public; question; right; slavery; slaves; speech; states; subject; territory; thing; time; union; united; war; way; white; wrong; years
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        item: #4 of 11
          id: 17318
      author: Stratton, Clarence
       title: Public Speaking
        date: None
       words: 88707
      flesch: 70
     summary: Note that in the following selection the first sentences state the topic of the passage which the succeeding sentences explain by discussing the phrase _variety of evils_. Is not the expression, _representative of the people_, here used in two different senses?
    keywords: argument; attention; audience; book; brief; cause; chapter; character; class; conclusion; debate; delivery; effect; english; exercises; fact; following; general; good; government; introduction; kind; know; language; law; life; making; man; manner; material; matter; men; method; mind; nations; new; order; outline; people; person; place; plan; play; point; power; practice; present; proposition; public; purpose; reading; remarks; second; sentence; speaker; speaking; speech; speeches; statement; states; student; study; things; time; topic; united; use; value; war; way; words; work; world
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        item: #5 of 11
          id: 17476
      author: Kleiser, Grenville
       title: Talks on Talking
        date: None
       words: 27121
      flesch: 67
     summary: Good conversation requires, among other things, mental alertness, accuracy of statement, adequate vocabulary, facility of expression, and an agreeable voice, and these qualities are most essential for effective public speaking. Judgment and tact are necessary to good conversation.
    keywords: conversation; expression; good; life; man; manner; men; mind; people; power; public; quality; salesman; self; speaker; speaking; speech; story; style; subject; talker; talking; thought; throat; time; use; voice; way; words
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        item: #6 of 11
          id: 18095
      author: Kleiser, Grenville
       title: Successful Methods of Public Speaking
        date: None
       words: 20893
      flesch: 68
     summary: Great speeches, like great pictures, are inspired by great subjects and great occasions. You will observe in the historical accounts of great orators, that without a single exception they studied, read, practised, conversed, and meditated, not occasionally, but with daily regularity.
    keywords: character; country; day; gladstone; life; man; men; mind; nation; orator; people; power; practise; public; speaker; speaking; speech; study; style; thought; time; voice; words; work; world
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        item: #7 of 11
          id: 18277
      author: Kleiser, Grenville
       title: The Training of a Public Speaker
        date: None
       words: 31293
      flesch: 62
     summary: The period is proper for the exordiums of greater causes, where the matter requires solicitude, commendation, pity. Besides these we find that other things affect us: a fine voice, a graceful action corresponding with what is said, and a manner of pronunciation, which perhaps is the most powerful ornament of eloquence; in short, everything conducted and managed in the way that is most fitting.
    keywords: art; cause; cicero; composition; discourse; eloquence; exordium; good; judge; manner; mind; narration; nature; opinion; orator; passions; place; reason; rhetoric; speaking; things; tho; thought; time; words
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        item: #8 of 11
          id: 5767
      author: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)
       title: The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Radio Addresses to the American People Broadcast Between 1933 and 1944
        date: None
       words: 77178
      flesch: 66
     summary: Italians have been overcrowded within their own territories, but they do not need to try to conquer the lands of other peoples in order to find the breath of life. Other peoples may not want to be conquered.
    keywords: action; american; attack; banks; business; come; congress; control; country; course; farm; federal; fighting; forces; future; general; good; government; help; home; individual; industry; japanese; labor; money; months; nation; national; new; past; peace; people; policy; power; present; prices; production; program; public; relief; ships; states; time; today; united; united states; use; wages; want; war; way; work; workers; world; years
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        item: #9 of 11
          id: 57813
      author: Lawrence, Edwin Gordon
       title: How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking
        date: None
       words: 128393
      flesch: 65
     summary: Many friends, I have, too; among them kings and great men of the world, whose friendship you will share with me. He is not shrouded in mystery, as are many great men of a much nearer period, but he can be as clearly perceived by the student of today as he was by his contemporaries--in fact, clearer, because the picture is not now, as it was then, blurred by the excessive praise of friends nor the calumnies of enemies.
    keywords: act; action; athens; body; cause; citizens; city; constitution; country; course; day; death; emphasis; fact; falling; force; form; friends; general; gentlemen; god; good; government; hand; heart; history; home; human; inflection; judges; justice; land; law; laws; liberty; life; man; manner; matter; means; memory; men; mind; nation; new; opinion; oratory; order; people; place; power; present; property; public; question; reason; right; sentence; series; sir; speaker; speech; state; subject; things; thought; time; trial; truth; union; voice; war; way; words; work; world; years
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        item: #10 of 11
          id: 6333
      author: Winter, Irvah Lester
       title: Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
        date: None
       words: 118219
      flesch: 73
     summary: Now, gentlemen, as you sit to-night in this elegant hall, think of the houses in which the _Mayflower_ men and women lived in that first winter! Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.
    keywords: action; american; audience; away; case; character; college; common; company; country; course; cæsar; day; end; england; expression; eyes; face; feeling; force; form; general; gentlemen; god; good; government; great; hand; head; heart; henry; history; home; honor; house; human; idea; john; justice; law; liberty; life; long; look; lord; love; making; man; men; mind; moment; nation; nature; new; party; people; permission; place; point; power; practice; president; public; publishers; purpose; right; saw; sea; sentence; sir; sound; speaker; speaking; speech; spirit; states; student; subject; things; thought; time; tone; training; united; voice; war; way; william; words; work; world; years; york
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        item: #11 of 11
          id: 9776
      author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
       title: Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
        date: None
       words: 79757
      flesch: 53
     summary: Upon the same principle, two or more words have been contracted into one, as _sodes_ for _si audes_, _sis_ for _si vis_, _capsis_ for _cape si vis_, _ain'_ for _aisne_, _nequire_ for _non quire_, _malle_ for _magis velle_, and _nolle_ for _non velle_; and we often say _dein'_ and _exin'_ for _deinde_ and _exinde_. And yet _he_, though he forbids us to versify in prose, recommends the use of _numbers_.
    keywords: account; art; attention; brutus; cause; character; crassus; dignity; elocution; eloquence; expression; force; forum; general; genius; good; greeks; history; kind; language; law; life; man; manner; mean; merit; nature; number; opinion; orations; orator; people; period; person; present; public; reason; sentence; speaker; speaking; species; style; subject; thing; thought; time; use; voice; words; years
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