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 xxxi
... use of this language is not confined to the more vehement paffions . Upon every fubject and occafion on which we speak , fome kind of feeling accompanies the words ; and this feeling , whatever it be , has its proper expreffion . It is ...
... use of this language is not confined to the more vehement paffions . Upon every fubject and occafion on which we speak , fome kind of feeling accompanies the words ; and this feeling , whatever it be , has its proper expreffion . It is ...
Page xxxvi
... use- ful purposes . This is , indeed , fufficiently evident , with- out any ftudied proof , from the nature of the thing . For , what is reading , but a method of conferring with men who in every age have been moft diftinguished by ...
... use- ful purposes . This is , indeed , fufficiently evident , with- out any ftudied proof , from the nature of the thing . For , what is reading , but a method of conferring with men who in every age have been moft diftinguished by ...
Page xxxvii
... use of only as a vehicle of inftruction ; and therefore nothing further is neceffary , or perhaps defirable , than that they should exprefs the facts , or truths , which they are intended to teach , with perfect perfpicuity of ...
... use of only as a vehicle of inftruction ; and therefore nothing further is neceffary , or perhaps defirable , than that they should exprefs the facts , or truths , which they are intended to teach , with perfect perfpicuity of ...
Page xlviii
... use to enumerate several of the leading objects of attention in criticism . It CRITICISM examines the merit of literary productions under the three general heads of Thought , Arrange- ment , and Expreffion . THE ESSENTIAL characters of ...
... use to enumerate several of the leading objects of attention in criticism . It CRITICISM examines the merit of literary productions under the three general heads of Thought , Arrange- ment , and Expreffion . THE ESSENTIAL characters of ...
Page lv
... use would answer his purpose as well . Perfpicuity is equally injured by an exceffive multiplicity of words , and by a parade of pompous and stately language . GRAMMATICAL arrangement is favourable to perfpi- cuity , when it marks ...
... use would answer his purpose as well . Perfpicuity is equally injured by an exceffive multiplicity of words , and by a parade of pompous and stately language . GRAMMATICAL arrangement is favourable to perfpi- cuity , when it marks ...
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