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 : to which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Taste |
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Page iii
... juft and graceful Elocution , I feel a peculiar pro- priety in addreffing it to you , as a public ac- knowledgment of the fteady fupport which you have given to this inftitution , and the important fervices which you have rendered it ...
... juft and graceful Elocution , I feel a peculiar pro- priety in addreffing it to you , as a public ac- knowledgment of the fteady fupport which you have given to this inftitution , and the important fervices which you have rendered it ...
Page viii
... juft elocution . And fome accurate obfervers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky fpecimens of modern eloquence , have con- cluded that this is the only law which ought to be pre- fcribed : 1 ON . -t confuetudo legendi CIC . yed to ...
... juft elocution . And fome accurate obfervers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky fpecimens of modern eloquence , have con- cluded that this is the only law which ought to be pre- fcribed : 1 ON . -t confuetudo legendi CIC . yed to ...
Page x
... juft fpeaking would require . Almost all perfons , who have not studied the art of speak- ing , have a habit of uttering their words fo , rapidly , that this latter exercife ought generally to be made ufe of for a confiderable time at ...
... juft fpeaking would require . Almost all perfons , who have not studied the art of speak- ing , have a habit of uttering their words fo , rapidly , that this latter exercife ought generally to be made ufe of for a confiderable time at ...
Page xi
... juft elocution . AIM at nothing higher , till you can read diftinctly and deliberately . LEARN to speak flow , all other graces Will follow in their proper places . RULE II . " Let your Pronunciation be bold and forcible . AN infipid ...
... juft elocution . AIM at nothing higher , till you can read diftinctly and deliberately . LEARN to speak flow , all other graces Will follow in their proper places . RULE II . " Let your Pronunciation be bold and forcible . AN infipid ...
Page xvi
... pains are neceffary in acqui- ring the habit of juft and forcible pronunciation ; and it can only be the effect of close attention and long practice , 44 Book iii . Chap . 2 , to nt words by a SIS . ords , which ' xvi ESSAY ON.
... pains are neceffary in acqui- ring the habit of juft and forcible pronunciation ; and it can only be the effect of close attention and long practice , 44 Book iii . Chap . 2 , to nt words by a SIS . ords , which ' xvi ESSAY ON.
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