An Introduction to the Grammar of Elocution: Designed for the Use of SchoolsMarsh, Capen & Lyon, 1836 - 174 Seiten |
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... nature ; ' that he who possesses natu- ral facility will of course speak well , while he who has it not is doomed to remain forever a mere bung- ler . 6 --- It is the more difficult to combat this idea , because , like most other errors ...
... nature ; ' that he who possesses natu- ral facility will of course speak well , while he who has it not is doomed to remain forever a mere bung- ler . 6 --- It is the more difficult to combat this idea , because , like most other errors ...
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... Nature ? When we have settled this point , our inquiries are ended . All we have to do is to submit to nature , to learn her system ; for we may rest assured we shall never make a better . Is it a fact that nature's systems are always ...
... Nature ? When we have settled this point , our inquiries are ended . All we have to do is to submit to nature , to learn her system ; for we may rest assured we shall never make a better . Is it a fact that nature's systems are always ...
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... nature , carefully observed , presents to us . If those who object to them would submit to follow out this careful observation , instead of suffering their prejudices or idleness to contradict the experience of those who have done so ...
... nature , carefully observed , presents to us . If those who object to them would submit to follow out this careful observation , instead of suffering their prejudices or idleness to contradict the experience of those who have done so ...
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... nature . It Nor is the list of slides and waves , given in the two chapters on Concrete Pitch , in any degree im- aginary . The difference between the slide on the word ' no , ( I won't ' ) and that on who ? ' is a real one , and is ...
... nature . It Nor is the list of slides and waves , given in the two chapters on Concrete Pitch , in any degree im- aginary . The difference between the slide on the word ' no , ( I won't ' ) and that on who ? ' is a real one , and is ...
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... nature . any of them . But it may be asked , Is nothing to be done , then , to render the study of Elocution easy ? Are we , on account of the general difficulty of the way , to leave untouched the many stumbling - blocks which the road ...
... nature . any of them . But it may be asked , Is nothing to be done , then , to render the study of Elocution easy ? Are we , on account of the general difficulty of the way , to leave untouched the many stumbling - blocks which the road ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accented syllables atonic elements beginning called Columbus concrete pitch course diphthongs direct equal discrete pitch downward slide drawling elements of expression emphasis emphatic words employed Erin example explain father faults feeling give given Grammar of Elocution hail hath hear heard Heaven Hophni and Phinehas human voice indirect equal wave indirect wave intonation Israel Jesus Jews lengthen long quantity Lord loud meaning median stress ment musical musical scale nature never octave pause Pharisees Philistines Pinta practice pupil quality of voice question radical pitch radical stress razors repeated saith unto scored exercises semitone short simple slides simple sounds slides and waves slurred solemn sounding line speaking speech subtonic elements tables tences thee thing third Thou art tion tone tonic elements unaccented unemphatic unequal wave upward interval upward slide utterance vanishing stress vocal elements whole
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 138 - When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
Seite 143 - Almighty and most merciful Father ; We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.
Seite 164 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.
Seite 144 - The injustice of England has driven us to arms ; and, blinded to her own interest for our good, she has obstinately persisted, till independence is now within our grasp. We have but to reach forth to it, and it is ours. Why then should we defer the declaration ? Is any man so weak as now to hope for a reconciliation with England, which shall leave either safety to the country and its liberties, or safety to his own life, and his own honor?
Seite 138 - These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth ; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Seite 138 - Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him : but Mary sat still in the house.
Seite 139 - And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
Seite 140 - And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died 1 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave.
Seite 170 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them." Then shifting his side (as a lawyer knows how), He pleaded again in behalf of the Eyes : But what were his arguments few people know, For the court did not think they were equally wise. So his lordship decreed, with a grave., solemn tone, Decisive and clear, without one if or but — " That, whenever the...
Seite 153 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.