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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Página xix
... himself excels , And ftands alone in indeclinabies , Conjunction , prepofition , adverb , join To ftamp new vigour on the nervous line : In monofyllables his thunders roll , HE , SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul ...
... himself excels , And ftands alone in indeclinabies , Conjunction , prepofition , adverb , join To ftamp new vigour on the nervous line : In monofyllables his thunders roll , HE , SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul ...
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... 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- lution ; but it ...
... 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- lution ; but it ...
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... himself , when he appears before the public , to confider the business he has to per- form in any other light , than as a trial of skill , and a dif- play of oratory . Hence the character of an Orator is often treated with ridicule ...
... himself , when he appears before the public , to confider the business he has to per- form in any other light , than as a trial of skill , and a dif- play of oratory . Hence the character of an Orator is often treated with ridicule ...
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... himself clearly understand his own meaning , can have no right to expect that his reader will understand it . Those writers are moft liable to this fault , whofe ambition , or vanity , outruns their genius . Affecting a degree of ...
... himself clearly understand his own meaning , can have no right to expect that his reader will understand it . Those writers are moft liable to this fault , whofe ambition , or vanity , outruns their genius . Affecting a degree of ...
Página xlv
... himself to the expreffion of a fingle thought in each fentence . It would be eafy to fhow , by exam- ples , that this fashionable method of reducing fentences to one standard , whatever it may add to the neatness and ele- gance of ftyle ...
... himself to the expreffion of a fingle thought in each fentence . It would be eafy to fhow , by exam- ples , that this fashionable method of reducing fentences to one standard , whatever it may add to the neatness and ele- gance of ftyle ...
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