The Young Debater and Chairman's Assistant: Containing Instructions how to Form and Conduct Societies, Clubs, and Other Organized Associations. Also Full Rules of Order for the Government of Their Business and Debates, Together with Complete Directions how to Compose Resolutions, Reports and Petitions, and the Best Way to Manage Public Meetings, Celebrations, Dinners, and Pic-nics |
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... guests as are desirable . 2. On orator . This committee invites the orator se- lected . 3. On place . This committee attends to hiring a room and fitting it up , or , if it be an out - of - door cele- bration , see to the erection of a ...
... guests as are desirable . 2. On orator . This committee invites the orator se- lected . 3. On place . This committee attends to hiring a room and fitting it up , or , if it be an out - of - door cele- bration , see to the erection of a ...
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... guests , and able speakers to address them after they have gratified their appetites . The set dinner , on the contrary , to ensure its success , should be conducted according to strict form . The preliminaries are similar to those of ...
... guests , and able speakers to address them after they have gratified their appetites . The set dinner , on the contrary , to ensure its success , should be conducted according to strict form . The preliminaries are similar to those of ...
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... guest of the day is seated at the right hand of the president , the other invited guests in the vicinity . If possible , the table should be arranged in T shape , and the officers and others thus disposed . The company should stand by ...
... guest of the day is seated at the right hand of the president , the other invited guests in the vicinity . If possible , the table should be arranged in T shape , and the officers and others thus disposed . The company should stand by ...
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... guests , as they are about to drink it , repeat it , or part of it , aloud . If the guest be toasted , it being personal , every one rises and drinks standing , following their drinking by applause . If , however , the personal toast be ...
... guests , as they are about to drink it , repeat it , or part of it , aloud . If the guest be toasted , it being personal , every one rises and drinks standing , following their drinking by applause . If , however , the personal toast be ...
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... guest need drink at all unless he chooses . He should keep a glass of wine before him , and raise it to his lips at every toast ; but , if he should not choose to drink , good man- ners requires that no one should note his abstinence ...
... guest need drink at all unless he chooses . He should keep a glass of wine before him , and raise it to his lips at every toast ; but , if he should not choose to drink , good man- ners requires that no one should note his abstinence ...
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Page 108 - Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads; the same ocean rolla at your feet; but all else, how changed!
Page 108 - ... you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse ; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance ; a thousand bosoms freely and fearlessly bared in an instant to whatever of terror there may be in war and death; — all these you have witnessed, but you witness them no more. All is peace.
Page 104 - If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time or other, in some place or other, the volcano will break out and flame up to heaven.
Page 82 - House shall, if appealed to, decide on the case, but without debate : if there be no appeal, the decision of the Chair shall be submitted to.
Page 115 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action/ In July 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument.
Page 111 - If the Ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the King, I will not say that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. 1 will not say that the King is betrayed ; but I will pronounce that the kingdom is undone.
Page 147 - He is willing to risk his life m its defence, and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. For what rights of a citizen will be deemed inviolable when a state renounces the principles that constitute their security...
Page 131 - If he be guilty, will not the recollection of his crimes teach him to make one bold push for the American throne ? Will not the immense difference between being master of every thing, and being ignominiously tried and punished, powerfully excite him to make this bold push ? But, sir, where is the existing force to punish him ? Can he not, at the head of his army, beat down every opposition ? Away with your President ! we shall have a king : the army will salute him monarch : your militia will leave...
Page 131 - ... the president in the field, at the head of his army, can prescribe the terms on which he shall reign master, so far that it will puzzle any American ever to get his neck from under the galling yoke.
Page 109 - ... roofs, which you then saw filled with wives and children and countrymen in distress and terror, and looking with unutterable emotions for the issue of the combat, have presented you to-day with the sight of its whole happy population, come out to welcome and greet you with a universal jubilee.