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, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pages |
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Page xvi
... Some cannot pro- nounce the letter , and others the fimple founds r , s , th , fb ; others generally omit the afpirate h . These faults may be corrected , by reading fentences , fo contrived as often to repeat the faulty founds ; and by ...
... Some cannot pro- nounce the letter , and others the fimple founds r , s , th , fb ; others generally omit the afpirate h . These faults may be corrected , by reading fentences , fo contrived as often to repeat the faulty founds ; and by ...
Page xxi
... Some of the principal of them are : omitting the afpirate h where it ought to be ufed , and inferting it where there fhould be none ; condfounding and interchang- ing the v and w ; pronouncing the diphthong ou like au or like oo , and ...
... Some of the principal of them are : omitting the afpirate h where it ought to be ufed , and inferting it where there fhould be none ; condfounding and interchang- ing the v and w ; pronouncing the diphthong ou like au or like oo , and ...
Page xxviii
... Some fentences are fo conftructed , that the laft word requires a stronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; whilst others admit of being closed with a foft and gentle found . Where there is no-- thing in the fenfe which requires the ...
... Some fentences are fo conftructed , that the laft word requires a stronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; whilst others admit of being closed with a foft and gentle found . Where there is no-- thing in the fenfe which requires the ...
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... SOME Would be thought to do great things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . THOUGH a man may become learned by another's learn- ing ; he never can ...
... SOME Would be thought to do great things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . THOUGH a man may become learned by another's learn- ing ; he never can ...
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... SOME people will never learn any thing , for this reason , because they understand every thing too foon . THERE is nothing wanting to make all rational and dif- interested people in the world of one religion , but that they fhould talk ...
... SOME people will never learn any thing , for this reason , because they understand every thing too foon . THERE is nothing wanting to make all rational and dif- interested people in the world of one religion , but that they fhould talk ...
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