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 |
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Page vi
... the feveral perceptions , emotions and paffions of the human mind , and to distinguish these from the mere effect of arbitrary custom or falfe taste ; to to discover and correct thofe tones , and habits of vi AN ESSAY ON.
... the feveral perceptions , emotions and paffions of the human mind , and to distinguish these from the mere effect of arbitrary custom or falfe taste ; to to discover and correct thofe tones , and habits of vi AN ESSAY ON.
Page viii
... these refpect the founding of the confonants . Some cannot pro- nounce the letter 1 , and others the simple founds r , s , th , fb ; others generally omit the afpirate b . These faults may be corrected , by reading fen- tences , fo ...
... these refpect the founding of the confonants . Some cannot pro- nounce the letter 1 , and others the simple founds r , s , th , fb ; others generally omit the afpirate b . These faults may be corrected , by reading fen- tences , fo ...
Page xi
... These are the fpeakers , who , in Shakespear's phrase , " offend the judicious hearer to the foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to fplit the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples who ...
... These are the fpeakers , who , in Shakespear's phrase , " offend the judicious hearer to the foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to fplit the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples who ...
Page xiv
... these two characters , and with the correct- nefs and precision of true learning , combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against ...
... these two characters , and with the correct- nefs and precision of true learning , combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against ...
Page xx
... these melodious speakers may no longer lie open to the farcafm ; Do you read or fing ? if you fing , you fing very ill . Se- riously , it is much to be wondered at , that this kind of reading , which has fo little merit confi- dered as ...
... these melodious speakers may no longer lie open to the farcafm ; Do you read or fing ? if you fing , you fing very ill . Se- riously , it is much to be wondered at , that this kind of reading , which has fo little merit confi- dered as ...
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