 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 páginas
...conventional signs, which enabled the speaker to address himself to the eye, as well as the ear of the audience. These were chiefly made by certain positions...and fingers, the meaning of which was universally recognised and familiar to ill classes, and the practice itself reduced to a regular system, as it... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 578 páginas
...made by certain positions of the hands and fingers, the meaning of which was universally recognised and familiar to all classes, and the practice itself...mere gesticulation, and without pronouncing a word." That many of these signs are similar to those used by the ancients, is proved by the same author, who... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 568 páginas
...conventional signs, which enabled the speaker to address himself to the eye, as well as the ear of the audience. These were chiefly made by certain positions...and fingers, the meaning of which was universally recognised and familiar to all classes, and the practice itself reduced to a regular system, as it... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1866 - 570 páginas
...conventional signs, which enabled the speaker to address himself to the eye, as well as the ear of the audience. These were chiefly made by certain positions...and fingers, the meaning of which was universally recognised and familiar to all classes, and tbe practice itself reduced to a regular system, as it... | |
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... impossible for the majority to comprehend what was said without the assistance of some conventional signs, which enabled the speaker to address himself to the eye, as well as the ear of the audience. These were chiefly made by certain positions of... 