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COMMON FAULTS IN GESTURE . The student who has carefully perused the preceding examples of the attitude and action which naturally give expression to various emotions , and who has faithfully practiced the gestures indicated and ...
COMMON FAULTS IN GESTURE . The student who has carefully perused the preceding examples of the attitude and action which naturally give expression to various emotions , and who has faithfully practiced the gestures indicated and ...
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Poetic and florid gestures , used in speaking plain prose . 12. ... Too frequent use of both hands in the same gesture , instead of reserving such action for expansive thought and extensive description , or for warm appeals to a whole ...
Poetic and florid gestures , used in speaking plain prose . 12. ... Too frequent use of both hands in the same gesture , instead of reserving such action for expansive thought and extensive description , or for warm appeals to a whole ...
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Italics indicate the emphatic word or words , and consequently the third or consummating motion of the gesture , as before analyzed . The grave accent ( ` ) indicates , where there is more than one emphatic and italicized word ...
Italics indicate the emphatic word or words , and consequently the third or consummating motion of the gesture , as before analyzed . The grave accent ( ` ) indicates , where there is more than one emphatic and italicized word ...
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| Title | The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises in Elocution |
| Author | Warren P. Edgarton |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Mason Brothers, 1860 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 30 May 2007 |
| Length | 502 pages |
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