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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... raise the voice , than to 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 ...
... raise the voice , than to 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 ...
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... raised within us , we naturally discover it by the manner in which we utter our words , by the features of the face , and by other well - known signs . The eyes and countenance , as weil as the voice , are capable of endless va- riety ...
... raised within us , we naturally discover it by the manner in which we utter our words , by the features of the face , and by other well - known signs . The eyes and countenance , as weil as the voice , are capable of endless va- riety ...
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... raises a writer of true genius above one of mean or moderate abilities . The field of nature lies equally open to all men : but it is only the man whose powers are vigorous and commanding , who can combine them with that diversity ...
... raises a writer of true genius above one of mean or moderate abilities . The field of nature lies equally open to all men : but it is only the man whose powers are vigorous and commanding , who can combine them with that diversity ...
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... which accidental . association may raise in the mind , are not likely to come forth spontaneously in that order , which is most natural , and best suited to form a regular piece . It Xxxviii ON READING WORKS OF TASTE .
... which accidental . association may raise in the mind , are not likely to come forth spontaneously in that order , which is most natural , and best suited to form a regular piece . It Xxxviii ON READING WORKS OF TASTE .
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... raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By the faults of others wise men correct their own . No man has a thorough taste of prosperity , to whom ad- versity never happened . When our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we ...
... raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By the faults of others wise men correct their own . No man has a thorough taste of prosperity , to whom ad- versity never happened . When our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we ...
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