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... fall into an error more absurd or more fatal than that na- ture , without cultivation , will eventuate otherwise , in the intel- lectual field untilled , than in the thorns and thistles of the waste , or the weeds of the sluggard's ...
... fall into an error more absurd or more fatal than that na- ture , without cultivation , will eventuate otherwise , in the intel- lectual field untilled , than in the thorns and thistles of the waste , or the weeds of the sluggard's ...
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... fall . While urging , however , the importance of gesture as an indis- pensable aid to expression , no teacher would wish to inculcate a mechanical and artificial style of action . The true speaker must have a true manner ; and of the ...
... fall . While urging , however , the importance of gesture as an indis- pensable aid to expression , no teacher would wish to inculcate a mechanical and artificial style of action . The true speaker must have a true manner ; and of the ...
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... tention 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 seated on his right and left INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON DECLAMATION . 29 Bingen on the Rhine,
... tention 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 seated on his right and left INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON DECLAMATION . 29 Bingen on the Rhine,
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... falls into any one of the wrong positions , has to go through a formal and conspicuous change of attitude , and then only to resume the inconvenient and ungraceful posture which he exhibited before . Easy , natural , and appropriate ...
... falls into any one of the wrong positions , has to go through a formal and conspicuous change of attitude , and then only to resume the inconvenient and ungraceful posture which he exhibited before . Easy , natural , and appropriate ...
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... falls ! " Attitude at the commencement of an address or of a recita- tion , depends , properly , on no arbitrary rule or direction , but on a due regard to the character of the composition .— ( 1 . ) If the piece opens with the ...
... falls ! " Attitude at the commencement of an address or of a recita- tion , depends , properly , on no arbitrary rule or direction , but on a due regard to the character of the composition .— ( 1 . ) If the piece opens with the ...
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