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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The great difficulty is , not to prove that it is a desirable thing to be able to read and speak with propriety , but to point out a practicable and easy method , by which this ...
The great difficulty is , not to prove that it is a desirable thing to be able to read and speak with propriety , but to point out a practicable and easy method , by which this ...
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... the same thing as speaking loud ; and not observing , that whether a speaker shall be heard or not depends more upon the distinctness and force , with which he utters his words , than upon the height of the key in which be speaks .
... the same thing as speaking loud ; and not observing , that whether a speaker shall be heard or not depends more upon the distinctness and force , with which he utters his words , than upon the height of the key in which be speaks .
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For example : Finally , brethren , whatsoever things are true , whatsoever things are honest , whatsoever things are just , whatsoever things are pure , what- soever things are lovely , whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be ...
For example : Finally , brethren , whatsoever things are true , whatsoever things are honest , whatsoever things are just , whatsoever things are pure , what- soever things are lovely , whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be ...
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All attempts to enable men to become orators , by teaching them , in written rules , the manner in which the voice , countenance , and hands are to be employed in expressing the passions , must , from the nature of the thing , be ...
All attempts to enable men to become orators , by teaching them , in written rules , the manner in which the voice , countenance , and hands are to be employed in expressing the passions , must , from the nature of the thing , be ...
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... regard articulation , command of voice , emphasis , or cadence : and he should content himself with reading and speaking with an immediate view to the correct- ing of his fundamental faults , before he aims at any thing higher .
... regard articulation , command of voice , emphasis , or cadence : and he should content himself with reading and speaking with an immediate view to the correct- ing of his fundamental faults , before he aims at any thing higher .
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