art of public speaking 12th edition pdf

User Settings. He had to plead the cause of factious and seditious persons who were always troubling the public peace. I have heard it said by some very good men, and some who have even been preaching the Christian religion amongst them, that they have no religion—that all their zeal in their worship of the Great Spirit was but the foolish excess of ignorant superstition—that their humble devotions and supplications to the Sun and the Moon, where many of them suppose that the Great Spirit resides, were but the absurd rantings of idolatry. Only it is probable that then one of those reactions that usually follow great anarchy would have taken place. Most regard it as ethically acceptable among politicians, business leaders, and other public figures as long as 1 the speaker does not deceive the audience by claiming to have written a speech when in fact it is ghostwritten, and 2 the speaker takes full responsibility for what he or she says regardless of who may have written the actual words of the speech.

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