Briefs for Debate on Current Political, Economic, and Social TopicsWalter Du Bois Brookings, Ralph Curtis Ringwalt Longmans, Green and Company, 1895 - 213 páginas |
Contenido
| xxx | |
| xxxiv | |
| xxxv | |
| xxxix | |
| xli | |
| xliii | |
| 1 | |
| 3 | |
| 6 | |
| 8 | |
| 11 | |
| 13 | |
| 16 | |
| 19 | |
| 22 | |
| 24 | |
| 27 | |
| 30 | |
| 32 | |
| 36 | |
| 37 | |
| 40 | |
| 44 | |
| 47 | |
| 49 | |
| 52 | |
| 55 | |
| 57 | |
| 59 | |
| 62 | |
| 65 | |
| 68 | |
| 70 | |
| 93 | |
| 96 | |
| 99 | |
| 102 | |
| 104 | |
| 107 | |
| 110 | |
| 112 | |
| 115 | |
| 117 | |
| 120 | |
| 123 | |
| 126 | |
| 129 | |
| 132 | |
| 134 | |
| 137 | |
| 139 | |
| 142 | |
| 144 | |
| 146 | |
| 149 | |
| 151 | |
| 154 | |
| 156 | |
| 160 | |
| 172 | |
| 178 | |
| 187 | |
| 195 | |
| 203 | |
| 211 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Affirmative American Commonwealth American Protective Association Annexation April argument Atlantic Monthly August Brief Canada Capital punishment Century Chap civil service commerce Congress Congressional Record Contemporary Review corruption currency dangerous debate December December 22 elections Emigration and Immigration England Essays evils February February 15 foreign Fortnightly Review Forum Freeman Snow House Reports industry interests International Review J. S. Mill James Bryce January Journal of Economics July June June 26 jury labor Lalor's Cyclopædia legislation March ment methods Municipal Nation Negative negroes Nicaragua Canal North American Review November October ownership pension Political Science Quarterly Popular Science Monthly practice present system principles Prohibition protect Public Opinion Quarterly Journal QUESTION railroads REFERENCES reform Republican party Resolved Senate Reports September silver speaker speech spoils system tariff tion United VIII vote Westminster Review Woman suffrage XVII XVIII York
Pasajes populares
Página xiv - You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak - Pray how did you manage to do it?
Página xxxi - The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion ; and again, to moderate, and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse and speech of conversation to vary, and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments ; tales with reasons ; asking of questions with telling of opinions ; and jest with earnest ; for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade any thing too far.
Página v - It is in use as a text-book in Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Colgate University, Oberlin College, and many other institutions. . In preparing this volume the editors have had a three-fold object in view. They have aimed : (i) to furnish a text-book for formal courses in public speaking and discussion ; (2) to provide a manual for literary and debating societies ; and (3) to give the ordinary worker, not a specialist in the subjects treated,...
Página iii - BROOKINGS, AB of the Harvard Law School, and RALPH CURTIS RINGWALT, AB Assistant in Rhetoric in Columbia University, New York. With an Introduction on ' The Art of Debate ' by ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, Ph.D.
Página xii - Learn to box, then, as you learn to play cricket and football. Not one of you will be the worse, but very much the better, for learning to box well. Should you never have to use it in earnest, there's no exercise in the world so good for the temper and for the muscles of the back and legs. As to fighting, keep out of it if you can, by all means. When the time comes, if it ever should, that you have to say "Yes" or "No" to a challenge to fight, say "No" if you can— only take care you make it clear...