Model Speeches for Practise

by Grenville Kleiser

This book contains a varied representation of successful speeches by eminently successful speakers. They furnish, in convenient form, useful material for study and practise. The student is earnestly recommended to select one speech at a time, analyze it carefully, note its special features, practise it aloud, and then proceed to another. In this way he will cover the principal forms of public speaking, and enable himself to apply his knowledge to any occasion.

78 pages, Paperback

First published May 11, 2007

About the author

Grenville Kleiser (1868–1953) was a North American author. He was the author of a long list of inspirational books and guides to oratorical success and personal development. Kleiser also worked as an instructor in Public Speaking at Yale Divinity School, Yale University.

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Reviews

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[Susan Molloy]

🖋️ I found this to be a useful book for practicing my public speaking skills. The author asserted that the “key to greatness of speech is sincerity. You must yourself be so thoroughly imbued with the truth and desirability of what you are urging upon others that they will be imprest by your integrity of purpose. To have their confidence and good will is almost to win your cause.” Moreover, it is important to “read aloud each day from your dictionary for at least five minutes, and give special attention to the pronunciation and meaning of words. This is one of the most useful exercises for building a large vocabulary.”
📙 This book was published in 1920.

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Introduction—
Aims and Purposes of Speaking—Grenville Kleiser
After-Dinner Speaking—James Russell Lowell
England, Mother of Nations—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Age of Research—William Ewart Gladstone
Address of Welcome—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Good-Will to America—Sir William Harcourt
The Qualities That Win—Charles Sumner
The English-Speaking Race—George William Curtis
Woman—Horace Porter
Tribute to Herbert Spencer—William M. Evarts
The Empire State—Chauncey M. Depew
Men of Letters—James Anthony Froude
Literature and Politics—John Morley
General Sherman—Carl Schurz
Oration Over Alexander Hamilton—Gouverneur Morris
Eulogy of McKinley—Grover Cleveland
Decoration Day—Thomas W. Higginson
Faith in Mankind—Arthur T. Hadley
Washington and Lincoln—Martin W. Littleton
Characteristics of Washington—William McKinley
Let France Be Free—George Jacques Danton
Sons of Harvard—Charles Devens
Wake Up, England!—King George
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