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 iii
... just and graceful Elocution , I feel a pecu- liar propriety in addreffing it to you , as a public acknowledgment of the steady sup- port which you have given to this Inftitu- tion , and the important fervices which you have rendered it ...
... just and graceful Elocution , I feel a pecu- liar propriety in addreffing it to you , as a public acknowledgment of the steady sup- port which you have given to this Inftitu- tion , and the important fervices which you have rendered it ...
Page vi
... just elocution . And fome accurate observers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky fpecimens of modern eloquence , have concluded that this is the only law which ought to be prescribed ; that all artificial rules are useless ; and ...
... just elocution . And fome accurate observers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky fpecimens of modern eloquence , have concluded that this is the only law which ought to be prescribed ; that all artificial rules are useless ; and ...
Page viii
... just speaking would require . Almost all perfons , who have not ftudied the art of speaking , have a habit of ut- tering their words fo rapidly , that this latter exercise ought generally to be made use of for a confiderable time at ...
... just speaking would require . Almost all perfons , who have not ftudied the art of speaking , have a habit of ut- tering their words fo rapidly , that this latter exercise ought generally to be made use of for a confiderable time at ...
Page xv
... just and forcible pronun- ciation ; and it can only be the effect of close attention and long practice , to be able , with a mere glance of the eye , to read any piece with good emphafs and good difcretion . Ir is another office of ...
... just and forcible pronun- ciation ; and it can only be the effect of close attention and long practice , to be able , with a mere glance of the eye , to read any piece with good emphafs and good difcretion . Ir is another office of ...
Page xviii
... just speak- ing , are deferving of attention . But to fubfti- tute one unmeaning tune , in the room of all the proprieties and graces of good elocution , and then to applaud this manner , under the appel- lation of musical speaking ...
... just speak- ing , are deferving of attention . But to fubfti- tute one unmeaning tune , in the room of all the proprieties and graces of good elocution , and then to applaud this manner , under the appel- lation of musical speaking ...
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