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 TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - 346 páginas |
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... consider- able pause , where the grammatical construction requires none at all . In doing this , however , it is necessary , that , upon the word immediately preceding the pause , the voice be sus- pended in such a manner as to intimate ...
... consider- able pause , where the grammatical construction requires none at all . In doing this , however , it is necessary , that , upon the word immediately preceding the pause , the voice be sus- pended in such a manner as to intimate ...
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... consider- ed , Precision in the use of Terms , and Accuracy in the struc- ture of Sentences . VERBAL PRECISION requires , that a writer express his exact meaning , without tautology , ambiguity , or redun- dance ; that he be careful not ...
... consider- ed , Precision in the use of Terms , and Accuracy in the struc- ture of Sentences . VERBAL PRECISION requires , that a writer express his exact meaning , without tautology , ambiguity , or redun- dance ; that he be careful not ...
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... considering , that they are then speak- ing the most literal of all truths . Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives the persons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favour . The ...
... considering , that they are then speak- ing the most literal of all truths . Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives the persons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favour . The ...
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... considering that this species , commonly called man , was too virtuous to be miser- able , and too vicious to be happy ; that he might make a distinction between the good and the bad , ordered the two youngest of the above - mentioned ...
... considering that this species , commonly called man , was too virtuous to be miser- able , and too vicious to be happy ; that he might make a distinction between the good and the bad , ordered the two youngest of the above - mentioned ...
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... . WORLD . CHAP . VII . THE CHOICE OF HERCULES . WHEN Hercules was in that part of his youth , in which it was natural for him to consider what course of life he ought to pursue , he one day retired into a CHAP . VI . 21 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... . WORLD . CHAP . VII . THE CHOICE OF HERCULES . WHEN Hercules was in that part of his youth , in which it was natural for him to consider what course of life he ought to pursue , he one day retired into a CHAP . VI . 21 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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