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 beft adapted to form a correct and graceful speaker . RULE I. Let your Articulation be difiinct and deliberate . GOOD Articulation confists in giving a clear A and full utterance at the feveral smile and contr plex founds . The ...
... appear beft adapted to form a correct and graceful speaker . RULE I. Let your Articulation be difiinct and deliberate . GOOD Articulation confists in giving a clear A and full utterance at the feveral smile and contr plex founds . The ...
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... appear , neither to understand or feel what they fay themfelves , nor to have any defire that it fhould be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault : a fpeaker without energy , is a lifelefs ftatue . In order ...
... appear , neither to understand or feel what they fay themfelves , nor to have any defire that it fhould be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault : a fpeaker without energy , is a lifelefs ftatue . In order ...
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... appears in the words , empire , exile . Accent affects every part of the fyllable , by giving additional force to the utterance of the whole complex found , but does not lengthen or change the vowel - found . In the words habit ...
... appears in the words , empire , exile . Accent affects every part of the fyllable , by giving additional force to the utterance of the whole complex found , but does not lengthen or change the vowel - found . In the words habit ...
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... appear intelligible and perfpicuous . But for this purpose it is necessary , that the reader should be perfectly acquainted with the exact conftruction , and full meaning , of every fentence which he recites . Without this it is im ...
... appear intelligible and perfpicuous . But for this purpose it is necessary , that the reader should be perfectly acquainted with the exact conftruction , and full meaning , of every fentence which he recites . Without this it is im ...
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... appear confused , and may even be mifreprefented in a manner moft abfurd and contradictory . There have been reciters , who have made Douglas fay to Lord Randolph * : We fought and conquer'd ere a sword was drawn . * Book ii . Chap . 18 ...
... appear confused , and may even be mifreprefented in a manner moft abfurd and contradictory . There have been reciters , who have made Douglas fay to Lord Randolph * : We fought and conquer'd ere a sword was drawn . * Book ii . Chap . 18 ...
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