Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures
Bain, George W.
English
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Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric,
Prose, Poetry and Story
woven into
Eight Popular Lectures.
by
George W. Bain.
PUBLISHED BY
THE PENTECOSTAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
LOUISVILLE, KY.
COPYRIGHTED 1915
BY
GEO. W. BAIN,
LEXINGTON, KY.
| To |
| Anna M. Bain. |
| So far as this life is concerned, Ican express no better wish for anyyoung man who reads this book,than that he may be wedded to a wifeas loyal, loving and helpful to himas mine has been to me. |
INTRODUCTION.
In offering this book to the public noclaim is made to literary merit or originalityof thought. It is published with thesame purpose its contents were spokenfrom the platform, namely, to do good.
With the testimony of many, that hearingthese lectures helped to shape theirlives, came the thought that reading themmight help others when the tongue thatspoke them is silent.
As a public speaker the author admits,that how to get a grip on his hearers outweighedthe grammar of language; thatthe ring of sincerity and truth in presentinga proposition appealed to him morethan relation of pronoun or preposition;besides in the "high school of hardknocks" from which he graduated artistictaste in literature was not taught.
If it is true that "tongue is more potentthan pen," then the mysterious power of
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