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Title: Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study

Author: Compiled by Grenville Kleiser

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Language: English

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PHRASES FOR PUBLIC SPEAKERS

AND

PARAGRAPHS FOR STUDY

Compiled by Grenville Kleiser

1910

TO THE STUDENT

The experienced public speaker acquires through long practise hundreds
of phrases which he uses over and over again. These are essential to
readiness of speech, since they serve to hold his thought well together
and enable him to speak fluently even upon short notice.

This book is one of practise, not theory. The student should read aloud
daily several pages of these phrases, think just what each one means,
and whenever possible till out the phrase in his own words. A month's
earnest practise of this kind will yield astonishing results.

He should also study the paragraphs, reprinted here from notable
speeches, and closely observe the use made of climax and other effects.
The phrase and the paragraph are the principal elements in the public
speaker's English style, and the student will be amply repaid for any
time he devotes to their analysis.

GRENVILLE KLEISER

CONTENTS

USEFUL PHRASES

PARAGRAPHS FROM NOTABLE SPEECHES

USEFUL PHRASES

A further objection to
Again, can we doubt
Again, we have abundant instances
Alas! how often
All experience evinces that
All that I have been stating hitherto
All that is quite true.
All this, I know well enough
All this is unnatural because
All we do know is that
Am I mistaken in this?
Amid so much that is uncertain
And, again, it is to be presumed that
And, finally, have not these
And, further, all that I have said
And hence it continually happens
And hence it is that
And here, in passing, let us notice
And here observe that
And if I know anything of
And if it is further asked why
And I