Part 3 — ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

Author’s own experience, 23

Advice to readers of discourses, 29

Ancients and moderns, 34

Augustine, 34

Antony’s speech analyzed, 57

Articulation, 116

Action in gesture, 122

Architecture of continuous thought, 160

Arrangement of thought, 164

Burdens of the extempore speaker, 15

Beecher, H. W., 40

Brutus’ speech analyzed, 54

Benevolent emotion, 97

Bautain’s comparison, 161

“Be bold,” 165

Bodily vigor, 193

Books of illustration, 243

Beatitudes in syllogistic form, 255

Coldness of reading explained, 23

Composite discourse, 25

Cicero, 33

Chatham, Lord, 36

Clay, 40

Calhoun, 40

Critical taste must not be too high, 44

Conclusion, 49

Cultivating emotional power, 95

Conversation, 105

Correcting faults of voice, 119

270Correcting faults of gesture, 122

Confidence acquired, 125

Confidence, false and true, 127

Confidence, power of, 128

Confidence while silent before an audience, 129

Changing plan at last moment, 190

Complimentary introductions, 201

Citations as introductions, 204

Calamity from bad introductions, 205

Climax, law of, 208

Crisis of discourse, 211

Concluding, three ways of, 215

Conclusion should have no new matter, 215

Classification, 250

Correcting shorthand reports, 266

Demosthenes, 33

Discussion, 48

Dean Swift’s sermon, 53

Discussion in a free state, 66

Disease as a hindrance, 81

Disqualifications summed up, 86

Drill on the elementary sounds, 116

Duty as a remedy for fear, 126

Divisional or military plan, 168

Deep breathing, 195

Diffuseness remedied, 209

Definition in speech, 249

Division in speech, 249

Eloquence can be taught, 9

Eloquence, degrees of, 11

Essay or speech, 29

Extempore speech in schools, 65

Education in the popular sense, 89

Extempore speech cultivates reason, 94

Emotion and the will, 98

271Etymology, use of, 104

Empty speeches, 212

Enriching extempore speech, 247

First speech, 46

Fear overcome, 63

Fluency and accuracy contrasted, 103

Failure, a preacher’s, 158

Five principles of introduction, 205

Funeral speech pronounced by Pericles, 218

Fallacies in reasoning, 253

Gladstone, W. E., 41

Gladstone, letter from, 42

Gibbon’s militia service, 92

Gathering thought, 159

Grasping the subject in a single idea, 183

Great addresses, three plans of, 217

Good results from a poor speech, 264

Healthfulness of extempore speech, 19

Hortensius, 33

Heroic self-denial in speech, 156

Holyoke’s experience, 193

Henry Clay’s eloquence, 214

Humor and pathos, 246

Humor cultivated, 246

Introduction, 46, 196

Impromptu speeches, 49

Initial fear, 60

Increasing thought-power, 90

Intellectual emotion, 95

Imagination, 109

Imagination in the Bible, 109

Instructive addresses, 141

272Introduction memorized, 197

Introduction needed, 198

Introductions, kinds of, 199

Keeping the speech fresh, 192

Luther, 35

Literary societies, 67

Language, 101

Laws in language, 102

Loudness, 119

Lawyers, 139

Lawyers not writers of speeches, 140

Lectures, platform, anniversary, and lyceum, 141

Lecture with varying titles, 155

Logical or mathematical plans, 168

Local allusions as introductions, 203

Language adapted to oratory, 210

Luxury of tears, 245

Logic for the orator, 248

Logic, its narrowness, 248

Lessons of speech, 263

Mental weakness, 79

Memorizing original and selected gems, 104

Mental picture painting, 110

Method of gathering and retaining thought, 162

Military plans, 168

Marks of a good plan, 171

Nerves quieted, 47

Natural orators, 74

Nature in the voice, 118

Narrative plans, 167

Naming divisions in advance, 173

Need of illustrations, 243

273Oratory, natural and acquired, 13

Oratory of ornament, 28

Object of speech, 150

Objection to using plan in public, 178

Opponent’s position studied, 257

Prejudice, grounds for, 9

Popular desire for extempore speech, 19

Pericles, 34

Pericles, funeral speech by 218

Pitt, William, 36

Patrick Henry, 37

Plan of speech on Chinese immigration, 50

Persons who cannot extemporize, 75

Pronunciation, 103

Poetry of science, 112

Poetry described, 112

Persuasion in preaching, 137

Pen and tongue, 145

Power of memory, 145

Pen in gathering and arranging, 146

Pen in preserving speeches, 146

Plan in all discourses, 148

Plan, importance of a good, 166

Plans, varieties of, 167

Plan, marks of a good, 171

Plan, how to use, 177

Plan to be memorized, 180

Preserving the plan after speaking, 186

Passage from introduction to discussion, 207

Pleasure of speaking well, 207

Principles of logic, 249

Readers deceive themselves, 31

Recitations emotional, 32

Robertson, Frederick W., 37

Rude speech plans, 50

274Rousing energy at the last moment, 191

Recited and extemporized introductions, 196

Rest after speech, 262

Repeating and amending speeches, 265

Sydney Smith’s sermon, 29

Spurgeon, 40

Spurgeon, sermon by, 230

Simplest framework, 46

Sketch containing three words, 52

Sketch memorized, 52

Sketch on the ocean, 53

Stimulus of controversy, 67

Sketches on the annexation of Cuba, 69

Seeing with our own eyes, 92

Source of Greek eloquence, 96

Sentence-casting, 131

Seductive but misleading methods, 133

Sermons, 136

Sermon texts, 136

Subject and object compared, 152

Subject definite, 153

Sydney Smith “sticking to his text,” 157

Sermon on Mars’ Hill, 169

Sermon dryness, 174

Shorthand, use of, 184

Speech as a battle, 187

“Stage fright,” 189

Sermon by Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, 230

Sermon on the Mount, 241

Sources of illustrations, 244

Syllogisms, 251

Syllogisms abbreviated, 255

Seeking praise, 265

Training, effects of, 10

Time saving, 24, 175

275Transition, 48

Three classes of men in respect to eloquence, 74

Timidity may be overcome, 77

Thought and emotion, 87

Thought-gathering, 159

Textual plans, 167

Tertullus, 201

Topics of the day as introductions, 203

Things seen, heard, or imagined as introductions, 205

Taylor, the Methodist missionary, 258

Unconscious gesticulation, 124

Use of other speakers’ sketches, 171

Voice and gesture, 114

Various fields of oratory, 135

Why extempore speech is emotional, 22

Whitefield, 38

Wesley, 38

Webster, 40

Written composition a hindrance and a help, 45

Writer’s first speech, 61

Weak voices, 76

Wordless men, 83

Waiting for the moment of beginning, 189

Webster, anecdote of, 203

Writing after delivery, 265

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