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 is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Tastebooksellers, 1801 - 300 páginas |
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... should be done well . Every private company , and almoft every public affembly , affords opportunities of remarking the differ- ence between a just and graceful , and a faulty and unna- tural elocution ; and there are few perfons who do ...
... should be done well . Every private company , and almoft every public affembly , affords opportunities of remarking the differ- ence between a just and graceful , and a faulty and unna- tural elocution ; and there are few perfons who do ...
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... should render it in- capable of receiving aid from precepts ? Renk PRESUMING , then , that the acquifition of the art of fpeaking , like all other practical arts , may be facilitated by rules , I fhall lay before my readers , in a plain ...
... should render it in- capable of receiving aid from precepts ? Renk PRESUMING , then , that the acquifition of the art of fpeaking , like all other practical arts , may be facilitated by rules , I fhall lay before my readers , in a plain ...
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... should be per- fectly acquainted with the exa & t conftruction , and full meaning , of every fentence which he recites . Without this it is impoffible to give thofe inflections and variations to the voice , which nature requires ; and ...
... should be per- fectly acquainted with the exa & t conftruction , and full meaning , of every fentence which he recites . Without this it is impoffible to give thofe inflections and variations to the voice , which nature requires ; and ...
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... should that name be founded more than yours ? and that , where two questions are united in one sentence , and connected by the conjunction or , the first takes the fufpending , the fecond , the clofing pause ; as , Would you have been ...
... should that name be founded more than yours ? and that , where two questions are united in one sentence , and connected by the conjunction or , the first takes the fufpending , the fecond , the clofing pause ; as , Would you have been ...
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... should content himself with reading and speaking with an imme- diate view to the correcting of his fundamental faults , before he aims at any thing higher . This may be irksome and disagreeable ; it may require much patience and refo ...
... should content himself with reading and speaking with an imme- diate view to the correcting of his fundamental faults , before he aims at any thing higher . This may be irksome and disagreeable ; it may require much patience and refo ...
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