The Speaker, Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the 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, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Tastebooksellers, 1801 - 300 Seiten |
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... fuch Rules refpecting Elocution , as appear beft adapted to form a correct and graceful speaker . RULE I. " Let your Articulation be diftinct and deliberate . A GOOD Articulation confifts in giving a clear and full utterance to the ...
... fuch Rules refpecting Elocution , as appear beft adapted to form a correct and graceful speaker . RULE I. " Let your Articulation be diftinct and deliberate . A GOOD Articulation confifts in giving a clear and full utterance to the ...
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... fuch , for inftance , as abound with long and unufual words , or in which many fhort fyllables come < together ; and to read , at certain ftated times , much flower than the fenfe and juft fpeaking would require . Almost all perfons ...
... fuch , for inftance , as abound with long and unufual words , or in which many fhort fyllables come < together ; and to read , at certain ftated times , much flower than the fenfe and juft fpeaking would require . Almost all perfons ...
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... fuch a command of voice , as is fcarcely to be acquired by any other method . Having repeated this experiment till you can fpeak with ease at feveral heights of the voice ; read , as exercifes on this rule , fuch compofitions as have a ...
... fuch a command of voice , as is fcarcely to be acquired by any other method . Having repeated this experiment till you can fpeak with ease at feveral heights of the voice ; read , as exercifes on this rule , fuch compofitions as have a ...
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... fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the world , afford the beft guard against the peculiarities and vulgarifms of pro- vincial diale & s . THE faults in pronunciation , which belong to this clafs , are too numerous to be ...
... fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the world , afford the beft guard against the peculiarities and vulgarifms of pro- vincial diale & s . THE faults in pronunciation , which belong to this clafs , are too numerous to be ...
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... fuch as diftin- guishing words or claufes of fentences by particular charac- ters or marks ; I believe it will be found , upon trial , that , except where they may be neceffary as a guide to the fenfe , not leaving the reader at full ...
... fuch as diftin- guishing words or claufes of fentences by particular charac- ters or marks ; I believe it will be found , upon trial , that , except where they may be neceffary as a guide to the fenfe , not leaving the reader at full ...
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