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 |
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Page viii
... Some cannot pronounce the letter 1 , and others the fimple founds r , s , th , fh ; others generally omit the af- pirate h . These faults may be corre & ted , by reading sentences , fo contrived as often to re- peat the faulty founds ...
... Some cannot pronounce the letter 1 , and others the fimple founds r , s , th , fh ; others generally omit the af- pirate h . These faults may be corre & ted , by reading sentences , fo contrived as often to re- peat the faulty founds ...
Page xiii
... the pe- culiarities and vulgarifms of provincial dialects . Those which refpect the pronunciation of words are innumerable , Some of the principal of them are omitting the afpirate h where it ought to be ELOCUTION . xiíí.
... the pe- culiarities and vulgarifms of provincial dialects . Those which refpect the pronunciation of words are innumerable , Some of the principal of them are omitting the afpirate h where it ought to be ELOCUTION . xiíí.
Page xxi
... Some fentences are fo conftructed , that the laft word requires a ftronger emphafis than any of the preceding ; whilst others admit of being clofed with a foft and gentle found . Where there is nothing in the fenfe which requires the ...
... Some fentences are fo conftructed , that the laft word requires a ftronger emphafis than any of the preceding ; whilst others admit of being clofed with a foft and gentle found . Where there is nothing in the fenfe which requires the ...
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... Some would be thought to do great things , who are but tools and instruments ; 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 instruments ; 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 difin- terested people in the world of one religion , but that they should 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 difin- terested people in the world of one religion , but that they should talk ...
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