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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... Nature . Pope . 88 ibid . 90 XIV . The origin of Superftition and Tyranny . ib . 9z XV . On Happiness . XVI . On Virtue . XVII . On Verfification . XVIII . Leffons on Wisdom , ib . 95 ib . 97 ib .. 100 Armstrong . 101 104 Mafon . 107 ...
... Nature . Pope . 88 ibid . 90 XIV . The origin of Superftition and Tyranny . ib . 9z XV . On Happiness . XVI . On Virtue . XVII . On Verfification . XVIII . Leffons on Wisdom , ib . 95 ib . 97 ib .. 100 Armstrong . 101 104 Mafon . 107 ...
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... Nature , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without a regard to which , all other rules will only produce affected declamation , not just elo- cution . And fome accurate observers , judging per- haps , from a few unlucky ...
... Nature , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without a regard to which , all other rules will only produce affected declamation , not just elo- cution . And fome accurate observers , judging per- haps , from a few unlucky ...
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... natural order , for the direction of the unexperienced and unpractifed learner ? And what is there in the art of ... nature of these sounds , therefore , ought to be well understood ; and much pains fhould be ta- ken to discover and ...
... natural order , for the direction of the unexperienced and unpractifed learner ? And what is there in the art of ... nature of these sounds , therefore , ought to be well understood ; and much pains fhould be ta- ken to discover and ...
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... nature , must be corrected in the pronunciation of a gentleman who is fuppofed to have feen too much of the world , to retain the peculiarities of the diftrict in which he was born . B5 RULE RULE V. Pronounce every word confifting of ...
... nature , must be corrected in the pronunciation of a gentleman who is fuppofed to have feen too much of the world , to retain the peculiarities of the diftrict in which he was born . B5 RULE RULE V. Pronounce every word confifting of ...
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... nature of the fimple founds . RULE VI . In every fentence diftinguish the more fignificant words by a natural , forcible , and varied EMPHASIS . EMPHASIS points out the precise meaning of a fentence , fhews in what manner one idea is ...
... nature of the fimple founds . RULE VI . In every fentence diftinguish the more fignificant words by a natural , forcible , and varied EMPHASIS . EMPHASIS points out the precise meaning of a fentence , fhews in what manner one idea is ...
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