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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... just and graceful , and a faulty and unna- tural elocution ; and there are few perfons who do not daily experience the advantages of the former , and the in- conveniences of the latter . The great difficulty is , not to prove that it is ...
... just and graceful , and a faulty and unna- tural elocution ; and there are few perfons who do not daily experience the advantages of the former , and the in- conveniences of the latter . The great difficulty is , not to prove that it is ...
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... just speaking , may deferve attention . But to fubflitute one unmeaning tune in the room of all the proprieties and graces of elo- cution , and then to applaud this manner under the appel- lation lation of mufical fpeaking , implies a ...
... just speaking , may deferve attention . But to fubflitute one unmeaning tune in the room of all the proprieties and graces of elo- cution , and then to applaud this manner under the appel- lation lation of mufical fpeaking , implies a ...
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... just elocution , and this with the greatest fuccefs , there is fome difficulty in carrying the art of speaking out of the school , or chamber , to the bar , the fenate , or the pulpit . A young man , who has been ac- customed to perform ...
... just elocution , and this with the greatest fuccefs , there is fome difficulty in carrying the art of speaking out of the school , or chamber , to the bar , the fenate , or the pulpit . A young man , who has been ac- customed to perform ...
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... just ; a description may be beautiful ; a fentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not naturally arifing from the fubject , it may be nothing better than a cenfurable excrefcence . Sed nunc non erat his locus . Whatever has no tendency to ...
... just ; a description may be beautiful ; a fentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not naturally arifing from the fubject , it may be nothing better than a cenfurable excrefcence . Sed nunc non erat his locus . Whatever has no tendency to ...
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... just mean between bashfulness and impudence . I SHALL conclude with obferving , that as the fame man may be both modeft and affured , fo it is also poffible for the fame person to be both impudent and bashful . We have frequent ...
... just mean between bashfulness and impudence . I SHALL conclude with obferving , that as the fame man may be both modeft and affured , fo it is also poffible for the fame person to be both impudent and bashful . We have frequent ...
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