The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises in Elocution |
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... small , confined action ; elbows pinned to the sides ; flat and stiffened positions of the hand ; fingers and thumb clinging together , the whole hand placed like a piece of board , without joint or division , no natural turn of the ...
... small , confined action ; elbows pinned to the sides ; flat and stiffened positions of the hand ; fingers and thumb clinging together , the whole hand placed like a piece of board , without joint or division , no natural turn of the ...
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He thus commands , without effort , the whole sphere of his address , and secures the attention of all his audience . But the speaker who falls into any of the three faults exemplified , has either wholly to neglect all of his hearers ...
He thus commands , without effort , the whole sphere of his address , and secures the attention of all his audience . But the speaker who falls into any of the three faults exemplified , has either wholly to neglect all of his hearers ...
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PRIDE erects the whole frame , and throws the head upward and backward , moves with a wide and firm step , folds the arms , or places one akimbo , waves away , superciliously , the person who excites it , turns the eye upward , expands ...
PRIDE erects the whole frame , and throws the head upward and backward , moves with a wide and firm step , folds the arms , or places one akimbo , waves away , superciliously , the person who excites it , turns the eye upward , expands ...
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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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