The elocutionist, a collection of pieces in prose and verse [by various authors, ed.] by J.S. KnowlesJames Sheridan Knowles 1825 |
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Page xiv
... question of corresponding conjunctions or adverbs of parts of direct periods , depending upon participles , or adjectives , & c . ; but that each of the sentences is resolvable into two principal parts , the one commencing , or ...
... question of corresponding conjunctions or adverbs of parts of direct periods , depending upon participles , or adjectives , & c . ; but that each of the sentences is resolvable into two principal parts , the one commencing , or ...
Page xvii
... Questions asked by pronouns or adverbs , end with the falling inflection . " Who ever left the precincts of mortality , without . casting a trembling eye on the scene that is before him . What evil can come nigh to him , for whom Jesus ...
... Questions asked by pronouns or adverbs , end with the falling inflection . " Who ever left the precincts of mortality , without . casting a trembling eye on the scene that is before him . What evil can come nigh to him , for whom Jesus ...
Page xviii
... question commencing with a pronoun or an adverb , is used as an exclamation , it has the rising inflection . Will you for ever , Athenians , do nothing but walk up and down the city , asking one another , what news ' ? what news ? Is ...
... question commencing with a pronoun or an adverb , is used as an exclamation , it has the rising inflection . Will you for ever , Athenians , do nothing but walk up and down the city , asking one another , what news ' ? what news ? Is ...
Page xix
... question gives rise to an assertion , the question is the more audible— ( 2 ) . In Observe the other now ; ( 1 ) In the first place sallying out on a sudden from his seat - For what reason ? the evening - What urged him ? -Late - For ...
... question gives rise to an assertion , the question is the more audible— ( 2 ) . In Observe the other now ; ( 1 ) In the first place sallying out on a sudden from his seat - For what reason ? the evening - What urged him ? -Late - For ...
Page xxii
... question of taste or feeling . So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind ' ; Where a new world leaps out at his command , And ready nature waits upon his hand ' ; When the ripe colours soften and ...
... question of taste or feeling . So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind ' ; Where a new world leaps out at his command , And ready nature waits upon his hand ' ; When the ripe colours soften and ...
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