The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for ReadingF. Louis, 1804 - 376 pages |
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... shews in what manner one idea is connected with , and rises out of another , marks the several clauses of a sentence , gives to every part its proper sound , and thus conveys to the mind of the reader the full import of the whole . It ...
... shews in what manner one idea is connected with , and rises out of another , marks the several clauses of a sentence , gives to every part its proper sound , and thus conveys to the mind of the reader the full import of the whole . It ...
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... shew , that it is more frequently proper to raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a sen- tence . Interrogatives , where the speaker seems to expect an answer , should almost always be elevated at the close , with a peculiar tone ...
... shew , that it is more frequently proper to raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a sen- tence . Interrogatives , where the speaker seems to expect an answer , should almost always be elevated at the close , with a peculiar tone ...
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... shews want of breed- ing . That civility is best , which excludes all superfluous formality . Ingratitude is a crime so shameful , that the man was never yet found , who would acknowledge himself guilty of it . Truth is born with us and ...
... shews want of breed- ing . That civility is best , which excludes all superfluous formality . Ingratitude is a crime so shameful , that the man was never yet found , who would acknowledge himself guilty of it . Truth is born with us and ...
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... shew for a foot ball : whenever it is contested for , every one is ready to venture their lives and limbs in the dispute ; but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but sleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which ...
... shew for a foot ball : whenever it is contested for , every one is ready to venture their lives and limbs in the dispute ; but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but sleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which ...
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... That what we have we prize not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The virtue that possession would not shew us Whilst it Chap . ix . SELECT SENTENCES . 15.
... That what we have we prize not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The virtue that possession would not shew us Whilst it Chap . ix . SELECT SENTENCES . 15.
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