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 SPEECH SPEECH

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 4 For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood. Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 669. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Pliny)

{{Hoyt quote | num = 6 | text = He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than discover the sense of his heart deserves to have it pulled out like a traitor's and shown publicly to the rabble. Butler—The Modern Politician. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Voltaire)

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole." Byron—Don Juan. Canto I. St. 174. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprhne. The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. Campistron—Pompeia. XI. 5. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 8 Speech is silvern, silence is golden. Carlyle—A Swiss Inscription. Quoted in Sartor Resartus. Bk. III. Ch. III. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking. Carlyle—Essays. Biography. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 10 Sermo hominum mores et eclat et indicat idem. The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. Dionysius Cato—Distkha de Moribus ad FUium. Bk. IV. 26. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Voltaire)

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. Churchill—The Rosiad. L. 322. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ipse dixit. He himself has said it. Quoted by Cicero—De Nat. Deorum. I. 5, 10 as the unreasoning answer given by Pythagoras. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit. It is not easy to make a simile go on all-fours. Sir Edward Coke. Institutes. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 14 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt. Colossians. IV. 6. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 15 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge. II Corinthians. XI. 6. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Othello)

{{Hoyt quote | num = 16 | text = Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. II Corinthians. III. 12. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 17 Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani. The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride. Dante—Purgatorio. XI. 118. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 18 Think all you speak; but speak not all you think: Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more. Where Wisdom steers, wind cannot make you sink: Lips never err, when she does keep the door. Delaune—Epigram. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 19 As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. Demosthenes. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 20 | text = That's a Blazing strange answer. | author = Dickens | work = A Tale of Two Cities. | place = Bk. I. Ch. II. | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 21 | text = Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress. Wentworth Dillon—Essay on Translated Verse. L. 216. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 22 | text = I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me. Benj. Disraeu—Maiden Speech in the House of Commons. (1837) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 23 A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. Benj. Disraeu—Speech at the Riding School. London, July 27, 1878. (Of Gladstone.) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 24 A series of congratulatory regrets. Benj. Disuaeli—July 30, 1878. In reference to Lord Harrington's resolution on the Berlin Treaty. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 25 The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity. Benj. Disraeli—Speech at Guildhall. London, November 9, 1878. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Speech | page = 741 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 28 Miss not the discourse of the elders Ecclemasticus. VIII. 9