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... frequently proper to raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a sentence.
Interrogatives, where the speaker seems to expect an answer, should almost
always be elevated at the close, with a peculiar tone, to indicate that a question is
asked.
... frequently proper to raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a sentence.
Interrogatives, where the speaker seems to expect an answer, should almost
always be elevated at the close, with a peculiar tone, to indicate that a question is
asked.
Page xxx
Expresfion hath indeed been so little studied in public speaking, that we seem
almost to have forgotten the language of nature, and are ready to consider every
attempt to recover it as the laboured and affected effort of art. But Nature is
always ...
Expresfion hath indeed been so little studied in public speaking, that we seem
almost to have forgotten the language of nature, and are ready to consider every
attempt to recover it as the laboured and affected effort of art. But Nature is
always ...
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The chief advantage that ancient writers can boast over modern ones seems
owing to fimplicity. Every noble truth and sentiment was expressed by the former
in a natural manner, in a word and phrase simple, perspicuous, and incapable of
...
The chief advantage that ancient writers can boast over modern ones seems
owing to fimplicity. Every noble truth and sentiment was expressed by the former
in a natural manner, in a word and phrase simple, perspicuous, and incapable of
...
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OH, world, thy slippery turnso Friends now fast sworn Whose double bosoms
seem to wear one heart, - Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal, and exercise
Are still together; who twine (as 'twere) in love Inseparable; shall within this hour,
On ...
OH, world, thy slippery turnso Friends now fast sworn Whose double bosoms
seem to wear one heart, - Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal, and exercise
Are still together; who twine (as 'twere) in love Inseparable; shall within this hour,
On ...
Page 16
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men
should fear : Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
The RE is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it
out, ...
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men
should fear : Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
The RE is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it
out, ...
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| Title | 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 W. Enfield, ... |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Publisher | A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2016 |
| Length | 405 pages |
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