Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 Seiten An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... speak so as to be fully and easily understood by all who hear him ; and next , to speak with grace and force , so as to please and to move his audience . Let us consider what is most important with respect to each of these * . In order ...
... speak so as to be fully and easily understood by all who hear him ; and next , to speak with grace and force , so as to please and to move his audience . Let us consider what is most important with respect to each of these * . In order ...
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... speak ing , and delivering ourselves in an af- fected , artificial manner ? Nothing can be more absurd than to imagine , that as soon as one mounts a pulpit , or rises in a public assembly , he is instantly to lay aside the voice with ...
... speak ing , and delivering ourselves in an af- fected , artificial manner ? Nothing can be more absurd than to imagine , that as soon as one mounts a pulpit , or rises in a public assembly , he is instantly to lay aside the voice with ...
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... speak in public , as they do in private , when they speak in earnest , and from the heart . If one has naturally any gross defects in his voice or gestures , he begins at the wrong end , if he attempts at reforming them only when he is to ...
... speak in public , as they do in private , when they speak in earnest , and from the heart . If one has naturally any gross defects in his voice or gestures , he begins at the wrong end , if he attempts at reforming them only when he is to ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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