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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... just and graceful Elocution , I feel a pecu- liar propriety in addreffing it to you , as a public acknowledgment of the steady sup- port which you have given to this Inftituti- on , and the important fervices which you have rendered it ...
... just and graceful Elocution , I feel a pecu- liar propriety in addreffing it to you , as a public acknowledgment of the steady sup- port which you have given to this Inftituti- on , and the important fervices which you have rendered it ...
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... just elocution . And fome accurate obfervers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky fpecimens of modern eloquence , have concluded that this is the only law which ought to be prescribed ; that all artificial rules are useless ; and ...
... just elocution . And fome accurate obfervers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky fpecimens of modern eloquence , have concluded that this is the only law which ought to be prescribed ; that all artificial rules are useless ; and ...
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... 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 . Let your Pronunciation be bold and forcible . A N ...
... 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 . Let your Pronunciation be bold and forcible . A N ...
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... just and forcible emphasis , nothing more is necef- fary , than previously to study the construction , meaning , and fpirit of every fentence , and to ad- here as nearly as poffible to the manner in which we distinguish one word from ...
... just and forcible emphasis , nothing more is necef- fary , than previously to study the construction , meaning , and fpirit of every fentence , and to ad- here as nearly as poffible to the manner in which we distinguish one word from ...
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... just emphafis , he is able to add the various expreffions of emotion and paffion . To enumerate thefe expreffions , and defcribe them in all their variations is impracticable . Attempts have been made with some success to analyse the ...
... just emphafis , he is able to add the various expreffions of emotion and paffion . To enumerate thefe expreffions , and defcribe them in all their variations is impracticable . Attempts have been made with some success to analyse the ...
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