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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... true in the art of speak- ing , as well as in the art of living , that general precepts are of little ufe till they are unfolded , and applied to par- ticular cafes . To difcover and correct those tones , and habits of speaking , which ...
... true in the art of speak- ing , as well as in the art of living , that general precepts are of little ufe till they are unfolded , and applied to par- ticular cafes . To difcover and correct those tones , and habits of speaking , which ...
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... true ftandard of pronunciation , it must be fought for among those who unite the accuracy of learning , with the elegance of polite converfation . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the world , afford the beft ...
... true ftandard of pronunciation , it must be fought for among those who unite the accuracy of learning , with the elegance of polite converfation . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the world , afford the beft ...
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... true oratory . Agreeable infections and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they arife from , or are confiftent with just speaking , may deferve attention . But to fubflitute one unmeaning tune in the room of all the proprieties ...
... true oratory . Agreeable infections and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they arife from , or are confiftent with just speaking , may deferve attention . But to fubflitute one unmeaning tune in the room of all the proprieties ...
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... true , whatsoever things are honeft , whatfoever things are juft , whatfoever things are pure , whatfoever things are lovely , whatfoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue , and if there be any praise , think on these ...
... true , whatsoever things are honeft , whatfoever things are juft , whatfoever things are pure , whatfoever things are lovely , whatfoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue , and if there be any praise , think on these ...
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... true gentleman has acquired by having learned to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb , who is always exhibiting his formal dancing - bow , and minuet- step . So , we admire the manly eloquence and noble ar- dour of the Senator ...
... true gentleman has acquired by having learned to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb , who is always exhibiting his formal dancing - bow , and minuet- step . So , we admire the manly eloquence and noble ar- dour of the Senator ...
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