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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... it's proper ACCENT . As , when any stringed musical instrument receives a smart percussion , it's vibrations at first produce a loud and full sound , which gradually becomes soft and faint , although Xiv ESSAY ON ELOCUTION .
... it's proper ACCENT . As , when any stringed musical instrument receives a smart percussion , it's vibrations at first produce a loud and full sound , which gradually becomes soft and faint , although Xiv ESSAY ON ELOCUTION .
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... it's proper ex- pression . It is an essential part of elocution , to imitate this language of Nature . No one can deserve the appellation of a good speaker , much less of a complete orator , who does not , to a distinct articulation , a ...
... it's proper ex- pression . It is an essential part of elocution , to imitate this language of Nature . No one can deserve the appellation of a good speaker , much less of a complete orator , who does not , to a distinct articulation , a ...
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... it's influence upon the state of the mind , it may perhaps be justly asserted to be not less important . It is the design of this Essay , briefly to re- present the BENEFITS which are to be expected from this kind of reading ; and to ...
... it's influence upon the state of the mind , it may perhaps be justly asserted to be not less important . It is the design of this Essay , briefly to re- present the BENEFITS which are to be expected from this kind of reading ; and to ...
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... it's various productions , without hazard of exhausting their treasures . The ancients , numerous as their works of fancy are , were capable of enriching them with an endless variety of imagery , sentiment , and language . That strict ...
... it's various productions , without hazard of exhausting their treasures . The ancients , numerous as their works of fancy are , were capable of enriching them with an endless variety of imagery , sentiment , and language . That strict ...
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... sentiment , such writings as these provide a kind of entertain- ment , which is in it's nature elegant and refined , and which admits of endless diversity . By exhibiting images indus- triously XXX ON READING WORKS OF TASTE .
... sentiment , such writings as these provide a kind of entertain- ment , which is in it's nature elegant and refined , and which admits of endless diversity . By exhibiting images indus- triously XXX ON READING WORKS OF TASTE .
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