The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises in Elocution |
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... through a mass of inappropiate matter , before reaching any thing adapted to their use , but with the certainty of finding in it the materials which their peculiar circumstances require in the business of elocutionary training . For.
... through a mass of inappropiate matter , before reaching any thing adapted to their use , but with the certainty of finding in it the materials which their peculiar circumstances require in the business of elocutionary training . For.
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... thing to say , " said once a self - confident youth , solicited to pay attention to his elocution , " and I will find the way to say without the aid of elocution ! " So thought not Demosthenes , nor Cicero , nor Chatham , nor Fox , nor ...
... thing to say , " said once a self - confident youth , solicited to pay attention to his elocution , " and I will find the way to say without the aid of elocution ! " So thought not Demosthenes , nor Cicero , nor Chatham , nor Fox , nor ...
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... thing wearing the aspect of a paltry trick of low personal habit ; ill - formed manners ; rude , abrupt deportment ; careless , lounging attitudes ; swaggering , or jerking or twitching movements ; odd peculiarities of action ...
... thing wearing the aspect of a paltry trick of low personal habit ; ill - formed manners ; rude , abrupt deportment ; careless , lounging attitudes ; swaggering , or jerking or twitching movements ; odd peculiarities of action ...
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... thing false , that even any thing exaggerated , has been ad- vanced against thee ? " A very common fault in attitude , in academic declamation , is the awkward habit of keeping the left foot advanced , instead of the right . The left ...
... thing false , that even any thing exaggerated , has been ad- vanced against thee ? " A very common fault in attitude , in academic declamation , is the awkward habit of keeping the left foot advanced , instead of the right . The left ...
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... things ; I am not of your element . " GRIEF enfeebles the whole mien and attitude , and , when deeply felt , is expressed in the alternate drooping and upturn- ing of the head and eyes , and the alternate raising and drop- ping of the ...
... things ; I am not of your element . " GRIEF enfeebles the whole mien and attitude , and , when deeply felt , is expressed in the alternate drooping and upturn- ing of the head and eyes , and the alternate raising and drop- ping of the ...
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