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 Y public acknowledgment of the steady sup- port which you have given to this Infti- tution , and the important fervices which you have rendered ...
... just and graceful Elocution , I feel a pecu- liar propriety in addreffing it to you , as a Y public acknowledgment of the steady sup- port which you have given to this Infti- tution , and the important fervices which you have rendered ...
Page xiv
... just speaking would require . Almost all perfons , who have not studied the art of fpeaking , have a habit of uttering their words fo rapidly , that this latter exercife ought generally to be made use of for a confiderable time at first ...
... just speaking would require . Almost all perfons , who have not studied the art of fpeaking , have a habit of uttering their words fo rapidly , that this latter exercife ought generally to be made use of for a confiderable time at first ...
Page xxii
... just and forcible pronunciation ; 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 emphasis and good difcretion . It is another office of ...
... just and forcible pronunciation ; 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 emphasis and good difcretion . It is another office of ...
Page xxxiii
... just emphasis , and proper tones , how can he expect to do juftice to the fublime defcriptions of poetry , or the animated language of the paffions ? IN performing thefe exercifes , the learner fhould daily read aloud by himself , and ...
... just emphasis , and proper tones , how can he expect to do juftice to the fublime defcriptions of poetry , or the animated language of the paffions ? IN performing thefe exercifes , the learner fhould daily read aloud by himself , and ...
Page xxxiv
... just elocution , and this with the greatest succefs , there is fome difficulty in carrying the art of fpeaking out of the fchool , or chamber , to the bar , the fenate , or the pulpit . A young man , who has been accustomed to perform ...
... just elocution , and this with the greatest succefs , there is fome difficulty in carrying the art of fpeaking out of the fchool , or chamber , to the bar , the fenate , or the pulpit . A young man , who has been accustomed to perform ...
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