More Toasts: Jokes, Stories and Quotations. E-book. Formato PDF Marion Dix Mosher   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The subject of humor has an attraction peculiarly its own, because it deals with a mystery which yet is pleasantly interwoven with the daily life of each one of us. We often say of one of our neighbors that he has no sense of humour. But he often laughs; he never spends a day without at least trying to laugh, tho it remains but an attempt, an effort, an aspiration after something which he seems to have lost but wishes to recover. Either, that is, he remains grave when others laugh, or he laughs, as Horace says, with alien jaws, by constraint rather than because he cannot help it. He has a confused idea that it is expected of him. Such laughter is apparently the outcome of an uneasy sense of duty, a dismal travesty of the real thing. Certainly humour is a singularly elusive thing, and I doubt if anyone alive can explain it; but its elusiveness gives it something of its charm; and, moreover, the illustrations which are necessary to an inquiry into its nature, its scope and meaning, are apt to be amusing without being irrelevant.

Origin and History of the Mosher Family and Genealogy of One Branch of That Family: From the Year 1600 to the Present Time. E-book. Formato PDF William C. Mosher   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

No attempt has been made to trace all the branches of the family tree, extending through ten generations and containing thousands of names, as this would be too great a task. The search has been confined to the branch with which the com piler of this book is connected. He reverently dedicates the book to the living members of the Mosher family.

Effective Public Speaking the Essentials of Extempore Speaking and of Gesture. E-book. Formato PDF Joseph A. Mosher   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The above represents a noble and inspiring conception of the speaker; to say anything further on that phase of the subject would, I am afraid, be in the nature of an anti-climax. But such a point of view is not calculated to minister to the requirements of the great body of students, teachers, lawyers, doctors, businessmen, and simi lar everyday people who will never have occasion to scale the heights of eloquence, but who often need to express their ideas clearly, forcefully, and attractively to their fellowmen. It is to such that the following pages are addressed. The material used represents, in the main, a condensation and arrangement of the notes and criticisms which the writer has found most helpful to classes during ten years devoted chie?y to helping men — students, business and professional men — to develop their ability to speak effectively. One of the convictions which this experience has instilled is that in teaching public speaking it is easy to play a part in making over-instruction the bane of modern education, as Professor A. M.