12. In your own opinion, do speakers usually err from the use of too much or too

little force?

 

13. Define (a) bombast; (b) bathos; (c) sentimentality; (d) squeamish.

 

14. Say how the foregoing words describe weaknesses in public speech.

 

15. Recast in twentieth-century English "Hamlet's Directions to the Players,"

page 88.

 

16. Memorize the following extracts from Wendell Phillips' speeches, and deliver

them with the of Wendell Phillips' "silent lightning" delivery.

 

We are for a revolution! We say in behalf of these hunted lyings, whom God

created, and who law-abiding Webster and Winthrop have sworn shall not find

shelter in Massachusetts,--we say that they may make their little motions, and

pass their little laws in Washington, but that Faneuil Hall repeals them in the

name of humanity and the old Bay State!

 

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My advice to workingmen is this:

 

If you want power in this country; if you want to make yourselves felt; if you

do not want your children to wait long years before they have the bread on the