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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... fall of the voice or cadence , with which many readers uniformly finish a sentence . Nothing can be more destructive of all pro- priety and energy than this habit . The tones and heights at the close of a sentence ought to be ...
... fall of the voice or cadence , with which many readers uniformly finish a sentence . Nothing can be more destructive of all pro- priety and energy than this habit . The tones and heights at the close of a sentence ought to be ...
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... fall it , at the end of a sentence . Some sentences are so constructed , that the last words require a stronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; while others admit of being closed with a soft and gentle sound . Where there is ...
... fall it , at the end of a sentence . Some sentences are so constructed , that the last words require a stronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; while others admit of being closed with a soft and gentle sound . Where there is ...
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... fall by little and little . A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken ...
... fall by little and little . A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken ...
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... falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost , Why then we reck the value ; then we find The virtue , that possession would not show us , While it was ours . Cowards die many ...
... falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost , Why then we reck the value ; then we find The virtue , that possession would not show us , While it was ours . Cowards die many ...
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... fall upon the place : I could not be deceived by what followed . I shall find , " said he , some other way to get it off . " When the marquis had said this , he returned his sword into it's scabbard , made a bow to the guardian of it ...
... fall upon the place : I could not be deceived by what followed . I shall find , " said he , some other way to get it off . " When the marquis had said this , he returned his sword into it's scabbard , made a bow to the guardian of it ...
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