After-Dinner Speeches
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Wood, William Allen) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from After-Dinner Speeches: And How to Make Them Looking over some publishers´ lists recently for books of after-dinner speeches, I found only three volumes, which belong to what was originally an expensive set of books published fourteen years ago. It occurred to me that, as almost every one is at some time or other called upon to make an after-dinner speech, a small and inexpensive book, containing a choice new selection of speeches by some of the best-known speakers and by others who have happened to "hit it off" on some occasion, would be an acceptable addition to the publishers´ lists. I found dozens of toast books consisting of short, hackneyed bits of verse or prose, which are as useless to the entertaining speaker as anything well could be, but I found nothing but the three volumes which contain material that could be used as examples of the art of after-dinner speaking. As good pictorial and plastic art is not copied, but is original, so is good speech-making, though the student of either studies the work of masters in the same line to see how the best has been produced. It has been my object to reproduce some of the best after-dinner speeches made for the purpose of pure entertainment or to impart elevated sentiment or interesting information and some containing timely discussion, speeches that can be absorbed without too much mental effort, to serve as examples of the art and, in an introduction, to tell in a general way how to make a good after-dinner speech. Though I have written the introduction to instruct, I hope I have done so in such a manner that the instruction may be accomplished painlessly. To the many who can make good after-dinner speeches without instruction or example, the book may be diverting as entertainment and as a source of new points of view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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