The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very 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 |
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... fome confequence , that what a man has hourly occafion to do , fhould be done well . Every private company , and almoft every public affembly affords opportunities of remarking the difference between a juit and graceful , and a faulty ...
... fome confequence , that what a man has hourly occafion to do , fhould be done well . Every private company , and almoft every public affembly affords opportunities of remarking the difference between a juit and graceful , and a faulty ...
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... fome defect in the organs of fpeech , are gene- rally the confequence of inattention or bad example . Many of thefe refpect the founding of the confonants . Some eannot pronounce the letter 7 , and others the 10 AN ESSAY ON.
... fome defect in the organs of fpeech , are gene- rally the confequence of inattention or bad example . Many of thefe refpect the founding of the confonants . Some eannot pronounce the letter 7 , and others the 10 AN ESSAY ON.
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... fome fentences the antithefis is double , and even treble ; thefe must be expressed in reading , by a very diftinct em- phasis on each part of the oppofition . The following in- ftances are of this kind : Anger may glance into the ...
... fome fentences the antithefis is double , and even treble ; thefe must be expressed in reading , by a very diftinct em- phasis on each part of the oppofition . The following in- ftances are of this kind : Anger may glance into the ...
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... fome particular meaning not immediately arifing from the words , but depending upon the intention of the speaker , or fome accidental circumftance . The following short sentence may have three different meanings , according to the dif ...
... fome particular meaning not immediately arifing from the words , but depending upon the intention of the speaker , or fome accidental circumftance . The following short sentence may have three different meanings , according to the dif ...
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... fome kind of feeling ufually accompanies our words , and this , whatever it be , hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little studied in public fpeaking , that we feem almoft to have forgotten the language ...
... fome kind of feeling ufually accompanies our words , and this , whatever it be , hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little studied in public fpeaking , that we feem almoft to have forgotten the language ...
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