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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... Some cannot pro- nounce the letter l , and others the fimple founds r , s , th , fb ; others generally omit the aspirate b . Thefe faults may be corrected , by reading fen- tences , fo contrived as often to repeat the faulty founds ...
... Some cannot pro- nounce the letter l , and others the fimple founds r , s , th , fb ; others generally omit the aspirate b . Thefe faults may be corrected , by reading fen- tences , fo contrived as often to repeat the faulty founds ...
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... the pe- culiarities and vulgarifms of provincial dialects . Those which refpect the pronunciation of words are innumerable . Some of the principal of them are : are : omitting the afpirate b where it ought to xiv AN ESSAY ON.
... the pe- culiarities and vulgarifms of provincial dialects . Those which refpect the pronunciation of words are innumerable . Some of the principal of them are : are : omitting the afpirate b where it ought to xiv AN ESSAY ON.
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... some fentences the antithefis is double , and even treble ; these must be expreffed in reading , by a very distinct emphasis on each part of the oppofition . The following inftances are of this kind : ANGER may glance into the breast of ...
... some fentences the antithefis is double , and even treble ; these must be expreffed in reading , by a very distinct emphasis on each part of the oppofition . The following inftances are of this kind : ANGER may glance into the breast of ...
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... some par- ticular meaning not immediately arifing from the words , but depending upon the intention of the speaker , or fome incidental circumftance . The following short sentence may have three different meanings , according to the ...
... some par- ticular meaning not immediately arifing from the words , but depending upon the intention of the speaker , or fome incidental circumftance . The following short sentence may have three different meanings , according to the ...
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... Some fentences are fo conftructed , that the last word requires a ftronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; whilft others admit of being clofed with a foft and gentle found . Where there is nothing in the fense which requires the ...
... Some fentences are fo conftructed , that the last word requires a ftronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; whilft others admit of being clofed with a foft and gentle found . Where there is nothing in the fense which requires the ...
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