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Title: Model Speeches for Practise

Author: Grenville Kleiser

Release Date: May 6, 2006 [EBook #18323]

Language: English

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MODEL SPEECHES FOR PRACTISE

BY

GRENVILLE KLEISER

_Formerly Instructor in Public Speaking at Yale Divinity
School, Yale University. Author of "How to Speak
in Public," "Great Speeches and How to Make
Them," "Complete Guide to Public Speaking,"
"How to Build Mental Power,"
"Talks on Talking," etc., etc._

[Illustration: Publisher's logo]

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY

GRENVILLE KLEISER

[_Printed in the United States of America_]

Published, February, 1920

Copyright Under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the
Pan-American Republics and the United States, August 11, 1910

PREFACE

This book contains a varied representation of successful speeches by
eminently successful speakers. They furnish, in convenient form, useful
material for study and practise.

The student is earnestly recommended to select one speech at a time,
analyze it carefully, note its special features, practise it aloud, and
then proceed to another. In this way he will cover the principal forms
of public speaking, and enable himself to apply his knowledge to any
occasion.

The cardinal rule is that a speaker learns to speak by speaking, hence a
careful reading and study of these speeches will do much to develop the
student's taste for correct literary and oratorical form.

GRENVILLE KLEISER.
New York City,
August, 1919.

CONTENTS

PAGE
INTRODUCTION--Aims and Purposes of Speaking--_Grenville Kleiser_ 11

After-Dinner Speaking--_James Russell Lowell_ 29

England, Mother of Nation