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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... and there are few perfons who do not daily experience the advan- tages of the former , or the inconveniences of the latter . The great difficulty is , not to prove that it it is a defirable thing to be able to read a 3.
... and there are few perfons who do not daily experience the advan- tages of the former , or the inconveniences of the latter . The great difficulty is , not to prove that it it is a defirable thing to be able to read a 3.
Page vi
... thing to be able to read and fpeak with propriety , but to point out a prac- ticable and easy method by which this accom- plishment may be acquired . FOLLOW Nature , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without a regard to ...
... thing to be able to read and fpeak with propriety , but to point out a prac- ticable and easy method by which this accom- plishment may be acquired . FOLLOW Nature , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without a regard to ...
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... thing as speaking loud ; and not observing , that whether a speaker shall be heard or not , depends more upon the diftin & tnefs and force with which he utters his words , than upon the height at which he pitches his voice . BUT it is ...
... thing as speaking loud ; and not observing , that whether a speaker shall be heard or not , depends more upon the diftin & tnefs and force with which he utters his words , than upon the height at which he pitches his voice . BUT it is ...
Page xxiv
... thing higher . This may be irksome and dif agreeable ; it may require much patience and resolution ; but it is the only way to fucceed . For if a man cannot read fimple fentences , or plain narrative or didactic pieces , with diftin & t ...
... thing higher . This may be irksome and dif agreeable ; it may require much patience and resolution ; but it is the only way to fucceed . For if a man cannot read fimple fentences , or plain narrative or didactic pieces , with diftin & t ...
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... things . Even virtue itself hath its ftated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re . venge it afterwards . Ir is much better to reprove , than to be ...
... things . Even virtue itself hath its ftated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re . venge it afterwards . Ir is much better to reprove , than to be ...
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