A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out. With a Complete Analysis of the Voice ... and the Several Figures of Rhetoric. To which are Added Outlines of Composition, Or Plain Rules for Writing Orations and Speaking Them in Public |
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... written composition with justness , energy , variety , and ease . Agreeably to
this definition , reading may be considered as that species of delivery which not
only expresses the sense of an author , so as . barely to be understood , but
which ...
... written composition with justness , energy , variety , and ease . Agreeably to
this definition , reading may be considered as that species of delivery which not
only expresses the sense of an author , so as . barely to be understood , but
which ...
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PUNCTUATION , or the doctrine of pausing , if philosophically considered , will
be found to extend much further than is generally supposed : for if pausing is that
resting between words and members of sentences which marks their several ...
PUNCTUATION , or the doctrine of pausing , if philosophically considered , will
be found to extend much further than is generally supposed : for if pausing is that
resting between words and members of sentences which marks their several ...
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... the first with respect to inflexion of voice , except in some few cases , may be
considered as purely declarative ; and like declarative sentences , they require
the falling inflexion at the end : and the last , with some few exceptions , require
the ...
... the first with respect to inflexion of voice , except in some few cases , may be
considered as purely declarative ; and like declarative sentences , they require
the falling inflexion at the end : and the last , with some few exceptions , require
the ...
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HITHERTO sentences have been considered only with regard to their external
form , and their plain and obvious meaning . We have seen them in all their
variety of simple and compound ; have observed them in every diversity of
structure ...
HITHERTO sentences have been considered only with regard to their external
form , and their plain and obvious meaning . We have seen them in all their
variety of simple and compound ; have observed them in every diversity of
structure ...
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This may appear paradoxical to those who have not studied the subject ; but if
every sentence begins high and ends low , or inversely , though the sentences
singly considered will have a variety , yet , if considered collectively , they will
have a ...
This may appear paradoxical to those who have not studied the subject ; but if
every sentence begins high and ends low , or inversely , though the sentences
singly considered will have a variety , yet , if considered collectively , they will
have a ...
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Page 231 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 31 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams...
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Page 232 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
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Page 207 - Muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos.
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| Title | A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out. With a Complete Analysis of the Voice ... and the Several Figures of Rhetoric. To which are Added Outlines of Composition, Or Plain Rules ... |
| Author | John Walker |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | S. Hamilton, 1801 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 25 May 2007 |
| Length | 392 pages |
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