The American Debater, Being a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public Debate

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Excerpt from The American Debater, Being a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public Debate: Wherein Will Be Found, an Account of the Qualifications Necessary to a Good Deliberative Orator, as Also the Mode of Acquiring Them, the Rules of Order Observed in Deliberative Assemblies The work takes, in fact, even a wider range. It assumes, in some sort, the responsible office of the Roman father whose son was destined to the Senate for, says the younger the father of each youth was his instructor on these occasions, or, if he had none, some person of years and dignity sup plied the place of a father. Accordingly, they were taught by that surest method of discipline - example, how far the right of proposing any law to the Senate extended what privileges a Senator had in delivering his opinion in the House the power of the magistrate in that assembly, and the rights of the rest of the members, where it is preper to yield, and where to insist when and how long to speak, and when to be silent, how to distinguish and separate complicated and inconsistent prepositions, and how to improve upon another member's motion, in a word, they learned, by this means, whatever relates to the conduct of a Senator in the House/'1' 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.