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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... use , than in the key in which they speak . Reading and fpeaking , therefore , in which all the variations of expreffion in real life are copied , must have continual variations in the height of the voice . " To acquire the power of ...
... use , than in the key in which they speak . Reading and fpeaking , therefore , in which all the variations of expreffion in real life are copied , must have continual variations in the height of the voice . " To acquire the power of ...
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... uses , and the structure and idiom of the language in which he writes . Hence arifes the neceffity of a correct and gram- matical knowledge of Greek and Latin , in order to enable any one to relish the beauties of the ancients . And ...
... uses , and the structure and idiom of the language in which he writes . Hence arifes the neceffity of a correct and gram- matical knowledge of Greek and Latin , in order to enable any one to relish the beauties of the ancients . And ...
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... use of no terms , or phrases , but fuch as convey a determi- nate meaning ; and that he avoid the introduction of un- common words , where words in ordinary ufe would answer his purpose as well . Perfpicuity is equally injured by an ...
... use of no terms , or phrases , but fuch as convey a determi- nate meaning ; and that he avoid the introduction of un- common words , where words in ordinary ufe would answer his purpose as well . Perfpicuity is equally injured by an ...
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... use , in directing their at- tention to fuch paffages , as are most likely to make a ftrong impreffion upon the fancy , and are best worth being committed to memory . But it fhould be recollected , that fuch felections are intended to ...
... use , in directing their at- tention to fuch paffages , as are most likely to make a ftrong impreffion upon the fancy , and are best worth being committed to memory . But it fhould be recollected , that fuch felections are intended to ...
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... use of riches , except in the diftribution ; the reft is all conceit . A WISE man will defire no more than what he may get justly , ufe foberly , diftribute cheerfully , and live upon contentedly . A CONTENTED mind , and a good ...
... use of riches , except in the diftribution ; the reft is all conceit . A WISE man will defire no more than what he may get justly , ufe foberly , diftribute cheerfully , and live upon contentedly . A CONTENTED mind , and a good ...
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