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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... appear below the name William Enfield , as follows : Warrington Academy October 1 , 1774 This presumably would fix the date of the first edition . WNB LIBRARIES SPEAKER BLOOMINGTON OR , MISCELLANEOUS SELECTED FROM THE PIECES.
... appear below the name William Enfield , as follows : Warrington Academy October 1 , 1774 This presumably would fix the date of the first edition . WNB LIBRARIES SPEAKER BLOOMINGTON OR , MISCELLANEOUS SELECTED FROM THE PIECES.
Page vii
... appear best adapt- ed to form a correct and graceful speaker . RULE I. Let your Articulation be distinct and deliberate . A GOOD Articulation confifts in giving a clear and full utterance to the several fim- ple and complex founds . The ...
... appear best adapt- ed to form a correct and graceful speaker . RULE I. Let your Articulation be distinct and deliberate . A GOOD Articulation confifts in giving a clear and full utterance to the several fim- ple and complex founds . The ...
Page ix
... appear neither to understand or feel what they fay themselves , nor to have any de- fire that it fhould be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault : a speaker without energy , is a lifeless statue . In order ...
... appear neither to understand or feel what they fay themselves , nor to have any de- fire that it fhould be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault : a speaker without energy , is a lifeless statue . In order ...
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... appear intelligible and perfpicuous . But for this purpose it is necef- fary , that the reader fhould be perfectly acquaint- ed with the exact construction and full meaning of every fentence which he recites . Without this it is ...
... appear intelligible and perfpicuous . But for this purpose it is necef- fary , that the reader fhould be perfectly acquaint- ed with the exact construction and full meaning of every fentence which he recites . Without this it is ...
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... appear confufed and obfcure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly loft . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to at- tend to the points ufed ...
... appear confufed and obfcure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly loft . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to at- tend to the points ufed ...
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