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Page 49
... public speak- ing and theatrical entertainments of the an- cients . Our modern pronunciation would have seemed to them a lifeless monotony . The declamation of their orators and the pronuncia- tion of their actors upon the stage ...
... public speak- ing and theatrical entertainments of the an- cients . Our modern pronunciation would have seemed to them a lifeless monotony . The declamation of their orators and the pronuncia- tion of their actors upon the stage ...
Page 50
... public speaking of any kind must in every country bear some proportion to the manner which is used in conversation ; and such pub- lic entertainments could never be relished by a nation whose tones and gestures in discourse were as ...
... public speaking of any kind must in every country bear some proportion to the manner which is used in conversation ; and such pub- lic entertainments could never be relished by a nation whose tones and gestures in discourse were as ...
Page 70
... speak their own language with pro- priety . Let the matter of an author be ever so good and useful , his compositions will always suffer in the public esteem , if his expression be deficient in purity or propriety . At the same time ...
... speak their own language with pro- priety . Let the matter of an author be ever so good and useful , his compositions will always suffer in the public esteem , if his expression be deficient in purity or propriety . At the same time ...
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... speaker , who has not some confidence in his own genius . We ought carefully to avoid using any author's peculiar ... speak in public . To attempt a poetical style , when it should be our business only to reason , is in the highest ...
... speaker , who has not some confidence in his own genius . We ought carefully to avoid using any author's peculiar ... speak in public . To attempt a poetical style , when it should be our business only to reason , is in the highest ...
Page 144
... public speakers for affecting their audience . Hence all studied declamations and laboured ornaments of style ... speaking an object of importance , were introduced . Before the rise of the Grecian republics , we perceive no remarkable ...
... public speakers for affecting their audience . Hence all studied declamations and laboured ornaments of style ... speaking an object of importance , were introduced . Before the rise of the Grecian republics , we perceive no remarkable ...
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