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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... understand or feel what they fay themselves , nor to have any defire that it fhould be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault : a fpeaker without energy is a lifeless tatue . In order to acquire a forcible ...
... understand or feel what they fay themselves , nor to have any defire that it fhould be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault : a fpeaker without energy is a lifeless tatue . In order to acquire a forcible ...
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... understanding and feelings , they rather mislead than aflift him . THE most common faults refpecting emphafis are , lay- ing fo ftrong an emphafis upon one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which ...
... understanding and feelings , they rather mislead than aflift him . THE most common faults refpecting emphafis are , lay- ing fo ftrong an emphafis upon one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which ...
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... understanding of the whole . An uninterrupted rapidity of utterance is one of the worst faults in elocution . A fpeaker , who has this fault , may be compared to an alarum - bell , which when ' once put into motion clatters on , till ...
... understanding of the whole . An uninterrupted rapidity of utterance is one of the worst faults in elocution . A fpeaker , who has this fault , may be compared to an alarum - bell , which when ' once put into motion clatters on , till ...
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... understands the meaning of the words , conceives the ex- preffion that would accompany them , if they were fpoken . THE language of paffion is uniformly taught by na- ture , and is every where intelligible . It confifts in the ufe of ...
... understands the meaning of the words , conceives the ex- preffion that would accompany them , if they were fpoken . THE language of paffion is uniformly taught by na- ture , and is every where intelligible . It confifts in the ufe of ...
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... understanding , and the exercise of imagination : whence books may be diftinguished by two leading characters , Inftructive and Interefting ; and will be divided into two claffes , Works of Knowledge , and Works of Tafte . BETWEEN the ...
... understanding , and the exercise of imagination : whence books may be diftinguished by two leading characters , Inftructive and Interefting ; and will be divided into two claffes , Works of Knowledge , and Works of Tafte . BETWEEN the ...
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