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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... thing to be able to read and fpeak with propriety , but to point cut a practicable and easy method by which this accomplishment may be acquired . FOLLOW NATURE , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without a regard to which ...
... thing to be able to read and fpeak with propriety , but to point cut a practicable and easy method by which this accomplishment may be acquired . FOLLOW NATURE , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without a regard to which ...
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... speak- ing in a high key is the same thing as speaking loud ; and not obferving , that whether a fpeaker shall be heard or not , depends more upon the a 6 diftinctnefs diftinctness and force with which he utters his upon the ELOCUTION . xi.
... speak- ing in a high key is the same thing as speaking loud ; and not obferving , that whether a fpeaker shall be heard or not , depends more upon the a 6 diftinctnefs diftinctness and force with which he utters his upon the ELOCUTION . xi.
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... thing higher . This may be irksome and dif- agreeable ; it may require much patience and re- folution ; but it is the only way to fucceed . For , if a man connot read fimple fentences , or plain narrative or didactic pieces , with ...
... thing higher . This may be irksome and dif- agreeable ; it may require much patience and re- folution ; but it is the only way to fucceed . For , if a man connot read fimple fentences , or plain narrative or didactic pieces , with ...
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... things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only drew the ... thing , who perhaps may excel us in . many . No object is more pleasing to the eye , than the fight of a man whom ...
... things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only drew the ... thing , who perhaps may excel us in . many . No object is more pleasing to the eye , than the fight of a man whom ...
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... thing that sparkles ; but great minds have but little admiration , because few things appear new to them . It happens to men of learning , as to ears of corn ; they fhoot up , and raife their heads high , while they are empty ; but when ...
... thing that sparkles ; but great minds have but little admiration , because few things appear new to them . It happens to men of learning , as to ears of corn ; they fhoot up , and raife their heads high , while they are empty ; but when ...
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