... hearers will have a right to infer that certain important steps have been tacitly passed over ; and the speaker may feel sure that if such omissions are detected by any of his hearers, they will form an unfavorable opinion, because of ...
... hearers, who temporarily, until you prove incompetent, look to you for leadership. Every advantage is with you, including sympathetic attention. This should give you confidence. You have every opportunity in the world to succeed. If you ...
II * I I T 4 i NOISE (N) (FROM THE LATIN, NAUSEA] 1. LOUD, CONFUSED OR. The Hearers.
... hearers are the equals or the seniors of the speaker, so that they may properly assume a critical attitude, and reasonably desire to form their own estimate as to the validity of the conclusion announced ; for in this case they must ...
... hearers, the Archbishop of Mechlin declares. These lectures could not have announced the heliocentric theory, which dates from the year 1506 only, nor could they have been before the university, because Copernicus did not take the ...
... hearers' sympathies with fierce denunciations of the pagan nations nearby in Damascus, Gaza and Tyre for their treatment of Israelite prisoners of war (hear his audience shout Amen!'). Then he turns on Moab, and attacks them for their ...
... hearers puzzling over the message of the book and the future of this reluctant prophet. Where is the denouement of a chapter 5 with its resolution of the story and the moral for its listeners? There can be none, for that would defeat ...
... hearers as well as to himself that, however much he may delve in the past, his object in doing so is solely in order better to understand the present. In contrast with the inductive and other methods of presentation, the chief ...
... hearers will be aided in understanding the speaker's work, if a clear statement of the object sought is made at the beginning, and a succinct summary of the results gained is presented at the end. The narrative method is certainly ...
... hearers of all these faculties, but by specialists to specialists. The ancient writers are not read — as three hundred years ago by Melanchthon and one hundred years ago by Heyne in Gottingen and Ernesti in Leipsic — to the general hearers ...