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. By William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ...J. Johnson, 1782 - 405 páginas |
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... should render it incapable of receiving aid from precepts ? PRESUMING then , that the acquifition of the art of speaking , like all other practical arts , may be facilitated by rules , I proceed to lay be- fore my readers , in a plain ...
... should render it incapable of receiving aid from precepts ? PRESUMING then , that the acquifition of the art of speaking , like all other practical arts , may be facilitated by rules , I proceed to lay be- fore my readers , in a plain ...
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... should be taken to discover and correct thofe faults in articulation , which , though often afcribed to fome defect in the organs of fpeech , are generally the confequence of inatten- tion or bad example . Many of these respect the ...
... should be taken to discover and correct thofe faults in articulation , which , though often afcribed to fome defect in the organs of fpeech , are generally the confequence of inatten- tion or bad example . Many of these respect the ...
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... should be ftrong emphasis , natural tones , or any just elocution . ance , AIM at nothing higher , till you can read dif- tinctly and deliberately . LEARN to speak flow , all other graces Will follow in their proper places . RULE II ...
... should be ftrong emphasis , natural tones , or any just elocution . ance , AIM at nothing higher , till you can read dif- tinctly and deliberately . LEARN to speak flow , all other graces Will follow in their proper places . RULE II ...
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... should be understood or felt by their audi-- ence . This is a fundamental fault : a speaker without energy , is a lifelefs ftatue . In order to acquire a forcible manner of pro- nouncing your words , inure yourself , while read- ing ...
... should be understood or felt by their audi-- ence . This is a fundamental fault : a speaker without energy , is a lifelefs ftatue . In order to acquire a forcible manner of pro- nouncing your words , inure yourself , while read- ing ...
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... should per- haps look for this ftandard only among those who unite these two characters , and with the correct- nefs and precifion of true learning combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free ...
... should per- haps look for this ftandard only among those who unite these two characters , and with the correct- nefs and precifion of true learning combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free ...
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