A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF PERTINENT EXPRESSIONS, STRIKING SIMILES, LITERARY. COMMERCIAL, CONVERSATIONAL, AND ORATORICAL TERMS, FOR THE EMBELLISHMENT OF SPEECH AND LITERATURE, AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE VOCABULARY OF THOSE PERSONS WHO READ, WRITE. AND SPEAK ENGLISH BY FORMERLY INSTRUCTOR IN PUBLIC SPEAKING AT YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL, YALE UNIVERSITY; AUTHOR OF "HOW TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC," "HOW TO DEVELOP POWER AND PERSONALITY IN SPEAKING," "HOW TO DEVELOP SELF-CONFIDENCE IN SPEECH AND MANNER," "HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN," "HOW TO READ AND DECLAIM," "COMPLETE GUIDE TO PUBLIC SPEAKING," ETC. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FIFTH EDITION FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY One cannot always live in the palaces and state apartments of language, but we can refuse to spend our days in searching for its vilest slums. -- William Watson Words without thought are dead sounds; thoughts without words are nothing. To think is to speak low; to speak is to think aloud. -- Max Muller The first merit which attracts in the pages of a good writer, or the talk of a brilliant conversationalist, is the apt choice and contrast of the words employed. It is indeed a strange art to take these blocks rudely conceived for the purpose of the market or the bar, and by tact of application touch them to the finest meanings and distinctions. -- Robert Louis Stevenson It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. No noble or right style was ever yet founded but out of a sincere heart. -- Ruskin Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. -- Byron A good phrase may outweigh a poor library. |
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