The Art of Public Speaking

by J. Berg Esenwein; Dale Carnegie

On May 21, 1914, when Dr. Conwell delivered this lecture for the five thousandth time, Mr. John Wanamaker said that if the proceeds had been put out at compound interest the sum would aggregate eight millions of dollars. Dr. Conwell has uniformly devoted his lecturing income to works of benevolence.

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GENERAL INDEX

Names of speakers and writers referred to are set in CAPITALS. Other references are printed in "lower case," or "small," type. Because of the large number of fragmentary quotations made from speeches and books, no titles are indexed, but all such material will be found indexed under the name of its author.

• A
• Accentuation, [150].
• ADDISON, JOSEPH, [134].
• ADE, GEORGE, [252].
• After-Dinner Speaking, [362-370].
• Analogy, [223].
• Analysis, [225].
• Anecdote, [251-255;] [364].
• Anglo-Saxon words, [338].
• Antithesis, [222].
• Applause, [317].
• Argument, [280-294].
• ARISTOTLE, [344].
• Articulation, [148-149].
• Association of ideas, [347], [348].
• Attention, [346], [347].
• Auditory images, [324], [348], [349].
  
  B
• BACON, FRANCIS, [225], [226], [362].
• BAGEHOT, WALTER, [249].
• BAKER, GEORGE P., [281].
• BALDWIN, C.S., [16], [92].
• BARRIE, JAMES M., [339-341].
• BATES, ARLO, [222-223].
• BEECHER, HENRY WARD, [3], [6], [31], [76-78];
  [113], [139], [186], [188], [223], [265], [275], [343], [346], [351-352].
• BERNHARDT, SARA, [105].
• BEROL, FELIX, [344].
• BEVERIDGE, ALBERT, J., [22], [35], [46], [67], [107], [470-483]
• BIRRELL, AUGUSTINE, [97].
• BLAINE, JAMES G., [368].
• BONCI, SIGNOR, [124].
• Books, [191-197;] [207-210].
• Breathing, [129-131].
• Briefs, [177], [210-214,] [290-294].
• BRISBANE, ARTHUR, [19].
• BROOKS, PHILLIPS, [356].
• BROUGHAM, LORD, [338].
• BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS, [32], [60], [116], [157], [269], [273-277,] [302], [448-464].
• BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN, [366-367].
• BURNS, ROBERT, [39].
• BURROUGHS, JOHN, [116].
• BYRON, LORD, [64], [87], [145], [188], [189], [199].
  
  C
• CAESAR, JULIUS, [175].
• CAMPBELL, THOMAS, [121].
• CARLETON, WILL, [334].
• CARLYLE, THOMAS, [42], [57], [105], [109], [194], [218], [249], [277-278].
• CATO, [356], [372].
• CHAMBERS, ROBERT, [19].
• Change of pace, [39-49].
• Character, [357-358].
• CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY, [177].
• Charm, [134-144].
• CHILD, RICHARD WASHBURN, [376].
• CHOATE, RUFUS, [464-469].
• CHURCHILL, WINSTON SPENCER, [89].
• CICERO, [115].
• Classification, [224].
• CLEVELAND, GROVER, [367-368].
• COHAN, GEORGE, [376].
• COLERIDGE, S.T., [373].
• COLLINS, WILKIE, [60].
• COMFORT, W.L., [235].
• Comparison, [19].
• Conceit, [4].
• Concentration, [3], [57], [80-84;] [346-347;] [374].
• Confidence, [1-8;] [184], [263-275;] [350], [358-360].
• Contrast, [19], [222].
• Conversation, [372-377].
• CONWELL, RUSSELL, [200], [483-503].
• CORNWALL, BARRY, [138], [184].
• COWPER, WILLIAM, [69], [121].
• CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER P., [72].
• CROMWELL, OLIVER, [95], [105].
• Crowd, Influencing the, [262-278;] [308-320].
• Ctesiphon, [116].
• CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM, [258-260].
  
  D
• DANA, CHARLES, [18], [200].
• DANIEL, JOHN WARWICK, [369-370].
• DANTE, [106].
• DE AMICIS, EDMONDO, [238].
• Debate, Questions for, [290], [379-382].
• Definition, [222], [224].
• Delivery, methods of, [171-181].
• DE MAUPASSANT, GUY, [187], [339].
• DEMOSTHENES, [67], [363].
• DEPEW, CHAUNCEY M., [365].
• DE QUINCEY, THOMAS, [255-256;] [338]
• Description, [231-247].
• DICKENS, CHARLES, [5], [234], [246], [247].
• Discarding, [224].
• DISRAELI, ISAAC, [101], [321].
• Distinctness, [146-152].
• Division, [224], [225].
  
  E
• Egotism, [376].
• EMERSON, RALPH WALDO, [10], [97], [103], [104], [105], [122], [144], [168], [188], [201],
  [231], [295], [321], [357], [362], [372].
• Emphasis, [16-24;] [31-32;] [47], [73].
• Enthusiasm, [101-109;] [267], [304], [311].
• Enunciation, [150-152].
• EVERETT, EDWARD, [78-79].
• Example, [223].
• Exposition, [218-228].
• Extemporaneous Speech, [179].
  
  F
• Facial Expression, [163].
• Feeling, [101-109;] [240], [264-265;] [295-305;] [312], [317], [320].
• Figures of speech, [235], [277], [331].
• FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE, [339].
• Fluency, [115-123;] [179], [184-197,] [354], [373].
• Force, [87-97].
  
  G
• GALTON, FRANCIS, [323].
• GASKELL, MRS., [186].
• Generalization, [226].
• GENUNG, JOHN FRANKLIN, [55], [92], [220], [226], [281].
• GEORGE, HENRY, [344].
• Gesture, [150-168].
• GIBBON, EDWARD, [175].
• GLADSTONE, WILLIAM E., [2], [8], [124], [157], [372].
• GOETHE, J.W. VON, [117], [372].
• GOLDSMITH, OLIVER, [121].
• GORDON, G.B., [365-366].
• GOUGH, JOHN B., [188].
• GRADY, HENRY W., [38], [240-242;] [252-253]; [268], [365], [425-438].
• GRAHAM, HARRY, [255].
• Gustatory images, [325], [348].
  
  H
• Habit, [190], [349].
• HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE, [302].
• HAMLET, [88-89]; [152-153].
• HANCOCK, PROF. ALBERT E., [335].
• HART, J.M., [338].
• HAY, JOHN, [443-448].
• HEARN, LAFCADIO, [238].
• HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST, [122], [271-272].
• HENRY, O., [247], [328-329].
• HENRY, PATRICK, [22], [102], [103], [107], [110-112]; [201], [271], [276].
• HESIOD, [146].
• HILL, A.S., [92], [281].
• HILLIS, NEWELL DWIGHT, [24], [32], [191-193]; [273-274]; [394-402].
• HOAR, GEORGE, [296-297].
• HOBSON, RICHMOND PEARSON, [285-286]; [287-289].
• HOGG, JAMES, [139].
• HOLMES, G.C.V., [226].
• HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, [148], [373].
• HOLYOAKE, GEORGE JACOB, [280], [281].
• HOMER, [146], [235].
• HOUDIN, ROBERT, [350].
• HUBBARD, ELBERT, [3].
• HUGO, VICTOR, [107], [503-505].
• Humor, [251-255]; [363-365].
• HUXLEY, T.H., [227].
  
  I
• Imagination, [321-333].
• Imitation, [335-336].
• Inflection, [69-74].
• INGERSOLL, ROBERT J., [68], [175].
• IRVING, WASHINGTON, [5], [235], [236], [246].
• IRVING, SIR HENRY, [158].
  
  J
• JAMES, WILLIAM, [349].
• JAMESON, MRS. ANNA, [69].
• JONES-FOSTER, ARDENNES, [243-245].
• JONSON, BEN, [343].
  
  K
• KAUFMAN, HERBERT, [42-44].
• KIPLING, RUDYARD, [4], [299-300].
• KIRKHAM, STANTON DAVIS, [360].
  
  L
• LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE, [339].
• LEE, GERALD STANLEY, [308].
• Library, Use of a, [207-210].
• LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, [50], [107], [166].
• LINDSAY, HOWARD, [40].
• LOCKE, JOHN, [188], [343].
• LONGFELLOW, H.W., [117], [124], [136].
• LOOMIS, CHARLES BATTELL, [365].
• LOTI, PIERRE, [238].
• LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL, [235].
  
  M
• MACAULAY, T.B., [76].
• MACLAREN, ALEXANDER, [254].
• MCKINLEY, WILLIAM, Last Speech, [438-442];
  Tribute to, by John Hay, [443].
• MASSILLON, [188].
• Memory, [343-354].
• MERWIN, SAMUEL, [72].
• MESSAROS, WALDO, [147].
• MILL, JOHN STUART, [355].
• MILTON, JOHN, [137].
• Monotony, Evils of, [10-12];
  How to conquer, [12-14]; [44].
• MORLEY, JOHN, [403-410].
• MOSES, [115].
• Motor images, [324], [348].
• MOTTE, ANTOINE, [10].
• MOZLEY, JAMES, [235].
  
  N
• NAPOLEON, [13], [104], [141], [184], [321].
• Narration, [249-260].
• Naturalness, [14], [29], [58], [70].
• Notes, see Briefs.
  
  O
• Observation, [167-168]; [186-188]; [206-207]; [223], [227], [350].
• Occasional speaking, [362-370].
• Olfactory images, [325], [348].
• Outline of speech, [212-214].
  
  P
• Pace, Change of, [30-49].
• PAINE, THOMAS, [122].
• PARKER, ALTON B., [423].
• PARKER, THEODORE, [257-258].
• PATCH, DAN, [2].
• PAUL, [2], [107].
• Pause, [55-64].
• Personality, [355-360].
• Persuasion, [295-307].
• PHILLIPS, ARTHUR EDWARD, [227], [229].
• PHILLIPS, CHARLES, [302-305].
• PHILLIPS, WENDELL, [25-26]; [34-35]; [38], [72], [97], [99-100].
• Pitch, change of, [27-35];
  low, [32], [69].
• PITTENGER, WILLIAM, I, [66].
• Platitudes, [376], [377].
• POPE, ALEXANDER, [122], [175], [231].
• Posture, [165].
• Practise, Necessity for, [2], [14], [118].
• Precision of utterance, [146-152].
• Preparation, [4-5]; [179], [184-215]; [362-365].
• PREYER, WILHELM T., [188].
• Proportion, [205].
• PUTNAM, DANIEL, [80].
  
  Q
• QUINTILIAN, [344].
  
  R
• Reading, [191-197].
• REDWAY, [170].
• Reference to Experience, [226].
• Repetition in memorizing, [348].
• Reserve power, [184-197].
• Right thinking, [355-360].
• ROBESPIERRE, [153-155].
• ROGERS, SAMUEL, [343].
• ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, [275], [416-422].
• RUSKIN, JOHN, [89], [90], [188].
  
  S
• SAINTSBURY, GEORGE, [55].
• SAVONAROLA, [158], [161].
• SCALIGER, [343].
• SCHAEFER, NATHAN C., [262], [355].
• SCHEPPEGRELL, WILLIAM, [27].
• SCHILLER, J.C.F., [117].
• SCOTT, WALTER DILL, [8].
• SCOTT, SIR WALTER, [271].
• Self-confidence, See Confidence.
• Self-consciousness, [1-8].
• SEWARD, W.H., [65-68].
• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, [22], [32], [82], [88-89]; [122], [152-153]; [161], [164], [227],
  [295], [302], [312-317]; [321].
• SHEPPARD, NATHAN, [147], [156], [170].
• SIDDONS, MRS., [48], [70].
• SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP, [188].
• Sincerity, [109].
• SMITH, F. HOPKINSON, [365].
• SPENCER, HERBERT, [58], [69].
• Stage fright, [1-8].
• STEVENSON, R.L., [122], [196], [201], [238], [242-243]; [335-336].
• STORY, JOSEPH, [298].
• Subject, Choosing a, [201-204].
• Subjects for speeches and debates, [121-123]; [379-393].
• Suggestion, [262-278]; [308-320].
• SUNDAY, "BILLY," [90], [158].
• Suspense, [59-61].
• Syllogism, [286].
  
  T
• Tactile images, [325], [348].
• TALMAGE, T. DEWITT, [237].
• Tempo, [39-49].
• TENNYSON, ALFRED, [121], [141-143].
• THACKERAY, W.M., [343].
• THOREAU, H.D., [188].
• Thought, [184-197]; [265], [347], [355-360].
• THURSTON, JAMES MELLEN, [50-54]; [302].
• Titles, [215].
• TOOMBS, ROBERT, [410-415].
• TWAIN, MARK, [343], [363], [365].
  
  V
• VAN DYKE, HENRY, [365].
• Visualizing, [323], [348], [349].
• Vocabulary, [334-341].
• Voice, [32], [124-144].
• VOLTAIRE, [4].
  
  W
• WATTERSON, HENRY, [303], [402-403].
• WEBSTER, DANIEL, [2], [73], [103], [109], [201], [278];
  Eulogy of, by Rufus Choate, [464-469].
• WEED, THURLOW, [349].
• WENDELL, PROF. BARRETT, [93].
• WESCOTT, JOHN W., [424-425].
• WHITEFIELD, GEORGE, [161].
• WHITTIER, J.G., [48].
• Will power, [356-359]; [373], [375].
• Words, [92], [93], [336-341]; [374].
  
  Y
• YOUNG, EDWARD, [90].