At the early age of six weeks our illustrious victim made her first appearance as a public speaker.

Quintilian and Wilson had already told this story to prove the effectiveness of the example as a rhetorical argument, a device of the public speaker.

Style is to written composition what delivery is to a public speaker.

He looked more like an elegant scholar than a popular public speaker.

First, Macaulay's art is that of a public speaker rather than that of a literary man.

Nor as a public speaker would he compare with Douglas in eloquence or renown.

His first appearance as a public speaker was at an annual anti-slavery convention in London, in 1826, when he made a marked impression.

It is well known that it is part of an actor's duty to make a careful study of gesture; and the same thing is true, to a somewhat smaller degree, of a public speaker.

As a public speaker he seemed superior to Frederick Douglass.

Only three years out of slavery, with little learning and no experience as a public speaker, painfully aware of the prejudice which must be encountered by men of his color, fearful too of the publicity that might reveal his whereabouts to his legal owner, who might reclaim his property wherever found, he yielded only reluctantly to Mr. Collins's proposition, and agreed at first upon only a three months' term of service.

Or one might be a public speaker, and get into Parliament later on, when women were admitted.

" "Dear meis he a public speaker?" "Yesin a way.

He was dark, undersized, trimly built; with a Vandyke beard clipped closely enough to show the lines of a bull-dog jaw, and eyes that had the gift, priceless to the public speaker, of seeming to hold every onlooking eye in the audience.

He has put on record his own ideas of the qualifications and the duties of the public speaker, whether in the Senate or at the bar, in three continuous treatises on the subject, entitled respectively, 'On Oratory', 'Brutus', and 'The Orator', as well as in some other works of which we have only fragments remaining.

His ability as a public speaker and a politician of letters is great, and in recognition of this he was askeda most distinguished honorin November of last year to open the Edinburgh Literary and Philosophical Institution for the winter session, his predecessors having been John Morley and Mr. Goschen.

On this point the following is the testimony of Henry Clay, himself a great orator as well as a great statesman, and one of Mr. P.'s most devoted and admiring friends: Mr. Prentiss was distinguished, as a public speaker, by a rich, chaste, and boundless imagination, the exhaustless resources of which, in beautiful language and happy illustrations, he brought to the aid of a logical power, which he wielded to a very great extent.

"The leading object of every public speaker should be, to persuade."Id.

His robust intellect, his shrewd common sense, his vehement feelings, and a fancy always more distinguished by force than by elegance, admirably qualified him for a powerful public speaker."

He was not, as his father was, an orator in that highest sense of oratory which implies something of inspiration, of genius, of passionate and poetic rapture; but he was a public speaker of extraordinary merit.

The public speaker's treasure chest; a compendium of source material to make your speech sparkle.

HOFFMAN, M. C. The public speaker's scrapbook.

SEE Hoffman, William G. HOFFMAN, WILLIAM G. The public speaker's scrapbook.

[Frag. LXII] ¶ Gracchus was thoroughly a man of the people and a very fluent public speaker, but his disposition was very different from Cato's.

He ain't the worst public speaker in the state.

I remember reading a satiric attack on Mr Gladstone by one of the young anarchic Tories, which began by asserting that Mr Gladstone was a bad public speaker.