Theodore Parker said, in a public speech: "I wish he had spoken long ago, but it is for him to decide, not us.
As Secretary Seward expressed it in a public speech, "Sherman and Farragut have knocked the planks out of the Chicago platform.
John Quincy Adams, in a public speech delivered in 1843 in the town of Mr. McKennan's residence, ascribed to that gentleman the chief credit of carrying the Protective Tariff Bill through the House of Representatives.
Mr. Weed, though unable to make a public speech, was the most persuasive of men in private conversation.
Johnson was bold and fluent in public speech, irresolute and procrastinating in action: Jackson wasted no words, but always acted with promptness and courage.
To the first demand for the enfranchisement of women in 1848, Mrs. Griffing heartily responded, and in this reform she was ever untiring in effort, wise in counsel, and eminent in public speech.
Public speech would be less persuasive if the characteristic imaginative qualities of poetic were excluded.
Scarcely any one contributed so many beautiful thoughts and happy phrases to the common stock of public speech.
And certainly an apt quotation is one of the most effective decorations of a public speech; but the dangers of inappositeness are correspondingly formidable.
When Lord John Russell formed his first Administration his opponents alleged that it was mainly composed of his cousins, and one of his younger brothers was charged with the impossible task of rebutting the accusation in a public speech.
Assume Mastery Over Your Audience In public speech, as in electricity, there is a positive and a negative force.
In public speech we apply it not only to a single utterance, as an exclamation or a monosyllable (Oh!
We see here that a change of tempo often occurs in the same sentence--for tempo applies not only to single words, groups of words, and groups of sentences, but to the major parts of a public speech as well.
So let it be understood that public speaking is not a matter of mastering a few dead rules; the most important law of public speech is the necessity for truth, force, feeling, and life.
I invite you to answer specifically the following questions either in the newspapers or the next time you make a public speech: "1.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public speech" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
