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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... taken the required shape , it is adopted , and signed by those present . The by - laws are treated in the same way . The society is now formed , but not fully organized . The officers provided for by the constitution have now to be ...
... taken the required shape , it is adopted , and signed by those present . The by - laws are treated in the same way . The society is now formed , but not fully organized . The officers provided for by the constitution have now to be ...
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... taken to admit none but those who are friendly , in order that as much secresy may be attained , as the nature of the case will admit . There are always two sets of officers in a convention- temporary and permanent . The first is merely ...
... taken to admit none but those who are friendly , in order that as much secresy may be attained , as the nature of the case will admit . There are always two sets of officers in a convention- temporary and permanent . The first is merely ...
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... taken . And if any member absent himself for six successive meetings of the company , without forwarding an excuse satisfac- tory to the commanding officer , the company may , by a majority vote , strike his name from the roll . ARTICLE ...
... taken . And if any member absent himself for six successive meetings of the company , without forwarding an excuse satisfac- tory to the commanding officer , the company may , by a majority vote , strike his name from the roll . ARTICLE ...
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... taken ? " Or , he may simply announce the fact , and wait for a member to move an adjournment . If during a meeting some member calls for a count , he counts , and announces if a quorum be present or not . If not , he says : " This ...
... taken ? " Or , he may simply announce the fact , and wait for a member to move an adjournment . If during a meeting some member calls for a count , he counts , and announces if a quorum be present or not . If not , he says : " This ...
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... taken the chair , and a quorum being present , the minutes are read . If there be any mistakes in the record , these are amended , and then the minutes are adopted . If , under circumstances requiring haste , or in the absence of the ...
... taken the chair , and a quorum being present , the minutes are read . If there be any mistakes in the record , these are amended , and then the minutes are adopted . If , under circumstances requiring haste , or in the absence of the ...
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Page 111 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Page 106 - 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 112 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain.
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Page 109 - 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.
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Page 129 - ... lords, and commons, than a government so replete with such insupportable evils. If we make a king, we may prescribe the rules by which he shall rule his people, and interpose such checks as shall prevent him from infringing them: but 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 147 - Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 77 - Grey, 6. 143. If two or more rise to speak nearly together, the speaker determines who was first up, and calls him by name, whereupon he proceeds, unless he voluntarily sits down and gives way to the other• But sometimes the house does not acquiesce in the speaker's decision, in which case the question is put, ' which member was first up ?