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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875. Excerpt: ... THIRD LECTURE. Mr. President: Young Gentlemen:--In each of these talks to you I illustrate in myself, as I am quite aware, one of the disadvantages connected with the practice of speaking without notes; a disadvantage which becomes especially noticeable, and especially important, when one has a large subject to present, the treatment of which must be compressed into a comparatively small space of time. I have been conscious every time, after speaking to you, that there were many things which I had not touched, of which I should have been glad to speak if the hour had permitted, and if I had not spoken under the «3' pressure of its sharp limitations. I feel the same thing more keenly to-day, because each of the points which I have to present is deserving of special and separate treatment, and might reasonably occupy a full hour by itself: while I have to present them all within the same limits, or as near that as I can. It seems like trying to squeeze the thousand volumes of a library into one book-case: or to pack the entire furniture of a room in a couple of trunks. I shall be constrained to treat the subjects rapidly, cursorily, in a way which I fear will seem to your minds, as well as to my own, unsatisfactory. But I have no alternative, having no other afternoons on which I could properly ask you to hear me, or, indeed, on which I could promise to meet you here. I must therefore do briefly, in a summary way, what it would be pleasanter to do more at leisure, with larger scope; since whatever I am to say must be finished to-day. In the last talk I spoke, as" you will remember, of certain physical and mental conditions of CONDITIONS OF SUCCESS. 133 success in preaching without one's manuscript. These are, all of them, important in themselves. But t...

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