The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers and Disposed Under Proper Heads: With a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of Taste |
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But the instance of defective articulation which is most common , and therefore requires particular notice , is the omission of the aspirate h . Through several counties in England this de- fect almost universally prevails ...
But the instance of defective articulation which is most common , and therefore requires particular notice , is the omission of the aspirate h . Through several counties in England this de- fect almost universally prevails ...
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In accenting words , care should be taken to avoid all affected deviations from common usage . There is the greater occasion for this precaution , as a rule has been arbitrarily introduced upon this subject , which has no foun- dation ...
In accenting words , care should be taken to avoid all affected deviations from common usage . There is the greater occasion for this precaution , as a rule has been arbitrarily introduced upon this subject , which has no foun- dation ...
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... except where they may be necessary as a guide to the sense , not leaving the reader at full liberty to follow his own understanding and feelings , they rather mislead than assist him . The most common faults respecting emphasis are ...
... except where they may be necessary as a guide to the sense , not leaving the reader at full liberty to follow his own understanding and feelings , they rather mislead than assist him . The most common faults respecting emphasis are ...
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But there were few among them , who were not able to collect , from the common magazine of nature , stores before unnoticed ; and to adorn their works , not only with ...
But there were few among them , who were not able to collect , from the common magazine of nature , stores before unnoticed ; and to adorn their works , not only with ...
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If , in making this choice , the advice of a judicious friend be wanting , they may safely rely upon the voice of common fame : for on questions of taste and feeling the general result of public opinion is seldom wrong .
If , in making this choice , the advice of a judicious friend be wanting , they may safely rely upon the voice of common fame : for on questions of taste and feeling the general result of public opinion is seldom wrong .
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