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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... use of for a confiderable time at first : for where there is a uniformly rapid utter- it is abfolutely impoffible that there should be ftrong emphasis , natural tones , or any just elocution . ance , AIM at nothing higher , till you can ...
... use of for a confiderable time at first : for where there is a uniformly rapid utter- it is abfolutely impoffible that there should be ftrong emphasis , natural tones , or any just elocution . ance , AIM at nothing higher , till you can ...
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... use , than in the key in which they speak . Reading and speaking , therefore , in which all the variations of expreffion in real life are copied , must have continual variations in the height of the voice , To To acquire the power of ...
... use , than in the key in which they speak . Reading and speaking , therefore , in which all the variations of expreffion in real life are copied , must have continual variations in the height of the voice , To To acquire the power of ...
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... use of points is to affift the reader in difcerning the grammatical construction , not to direct his pronunciation . In reading , it may often be proper to make a pause where the printer has made none . Nay , it is ve ry allowable for ...
... use of points is to affift the reader in difcerning the grammatical construction , not to direct his pronunciation . In reading , it may often be proper to make a pause where the printer has made none . Nay , it is ve ry allowable for ...
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... use of the language . All endeavours therefore to make men Orators by defcribing to them in words the manner in which their voice , countenance , and hands are to be employed , in expreffing the paffions , muft , in my apprehenfion , be ...
... use of the language . All endeavours therefore to make men Orators by defcribing to them in words the manner in which their voice , countenance , and hands are to be employed , in expreffing the paffions , muft , in my apprehenfion , be ...
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... use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ? fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , is is not a word better than a gift ? but CHAP . V. SELECT SENTENCES . 7 CHA P. V. ...
... use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ? fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , is is not a word better than a gift ? but CHAP . V. SELECT SENTENCES . 7 CHA P. V. ...
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