In the first place, she was not eager to have Nead as a tenant.
On two or three subsequent occasions Mr. Calhoun made brief extempore remarks showing each time a gradual decay of strength.
He had no boastful reliance upon intuition or inspiration or the spur of the moment, though no man excelled him in extempore speech.
The doctor carried over his shoulder the carcass of a goat, which was large and heavy enough to give him plenty of trouble; and Wilmore and Nick each led a young kid by an extemporehalter of rushes.
Writing brings Printing; brings universal every-day extempore Printing, as we see at present.
The body of the Book is made-up of mere tradition, and as it were vehement enthusiastic extempore preaching.
One understands moreover how, though he could not speak in Parliament, he might preach, rhapsodic preaching; above all, how he might be great in extempore prayer.
There is no better sample of Macaulay's extempore speaking than the first words which he addressed to his committee at Leeds after the Reform Bill had received the Royal assent.
One fact connected with the testimony against Whitefield, published by the faculty of Harvard college, we quote, as showing that then, as well as now, a difference of opinion existed as to written and extempore sermons.
He mentions this fact in a note of his diary as "the first time I ever prayed extempore before such a number.
As the scene was quite new, and I had just begun to be an extempore preacher, I had often many inward conflicts.
We shall soon see how his extempore expositions and prayers were fitting him for this new enterprise.
Assuredly he preferred extempore preaching to any other; yet he never pretended to preach without previous study.
For though all are not to be condemned that use notes, yet it is a sad symptom of the decay of vital religion when reading sermons becomes fashionable, where extempore preaching did once almost universally prevail.
He never addressed the senate, the people, or the army, but in a premeditated speech, though he did not want the talent of speaking extempore on the spur of the occasion.
The only thing I didn't like was his long extempore (to me familiar) prayers at night.
The plain, bare churches with white-washed walls, the long sermons and extempore prayers, speaking so much of the anger of God and the terrible punishments awaiting the sinner, the trials and sorrows that must come to all.
Then came the sermon, prefaced by an extempore prayer and concluding with the Lord's Prayer, creed and benediction.
We would add a caution against burning the iron, or partially fusing it, by too much heat, but we do not think a traveller with an extempore forge is in much danger of doing this.
Extempore grenades can be made from empty soda-water bottles or old ink jars.
It was made upon a tall, stupid man, who had challenged another to make an epigram extempore upon him.
To show parents what sort of simple descriptions they may reasonably expect from children, we venture to produce the following extempore description of a summer's evening, given by three children of different ages.
The event that has made most noise since my last, is the extempore wedding of the youngest of the two Gunnings, who have made so vehement a noise.
One of the chief amusements discovered by the poet, pour passer le temps in a postchaise, was making extempore epigrams upon the Bishop, and then laughing at them immoderately.
It is at this day wonderful common, for men to pray extempore also.
Including practical hints on Extempore speaking with a dissertation on the selection of appropriate topics, suitable style, and effective delivery, and also valuable advice to those who lack confidence when addressing the Public.
How to Speak in Public; or, the Art of Extempore Oratory.
Few succeed in all the multifarious qualifications of an extempore speaker--few are led by this unabated enthusiastic spirit resolved to meet and triumph over difficulties.
My intention now is not to discuss their peculiar merit as men of genius and extempore speakers; I merely quote them as models.
A few moments afterwards, Sgricci explained the dramatis personæ, and began to deliver extempore a tragedy of about fifteen hundred verses!
Italy boasts of the names of several ladies who have acquired fame by their poetical extempore compositions, among whom I may mention the Bandettini, the Mazei and the Corilla.
It is anextempore translation of a beautiful sonnet of Zappi, an Italian poet.
The talent of speaking extempore is always an acquired one: all good improvvisatori have followed a course of mental exercises.
I will not say that it is easy--that it requires but little labor to become a good extempore speaker.
Accordingly, I opened fire with a dithyrambic poem, praising the extempore comedians in question, and comparing their gay farces favourably with the dull and heavy pieces of the reformers.
During the first year the four masks and the soubrette, with some other actors of merit in the extempore style, took the wind out of Goldoni's and Chiari's sails.
Extempore In The Court Of Session Tune--"Killiercrankie.
A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore O thou who kindly dost provide For every creature's want!
Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thomson Dost thou not rise, indignant shade, And smile wi' spurning scorn, When they wha wad hae starved thy life, Thy senseless turf adorn?
One chief diversion, which yielded the company a frequent and very pleasing entertainment, consisted in producing an extempore play, in which their late benefactors and patrons were mimicked, and turned into ridicule.
On the other hand, she zealously urged on their project of an extempore play.
But neither minister nor people would take the king's liturgy, and extempore prayers became more established in use and favour than ever.
It usually lasted an hour, and when it ended the minister entered the church and conducted his service of extempore prayer and preaching.
Admirable as his written sermons are, his extempore prayers and the gushings of his heart in familiar talk were altogether higher and more touching than anything he wrote.
The smoked, extempore fireplace, where a party cooked their fish.
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it,"--an extempore prayer by a New England divine.
That extempore friseur was never caught afterward with a pair of "thinning-scissors" in his hand!
The Disgusted Wife to her Husband; The extempore Hair-cutter, 132.
