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 |
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Page xvi
... kind : ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man ; but refts only in the bofom of fools . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffion , thinks worse than he speaks and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse than he thinks ...
... kind : ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man ; but refts only in the bofom of fools . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffion , thinks worse than he speaks and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse than he thinks ...
Page xviii
... kind of read- ing , which has fo little merit confidered as mufic , and none at all confidered as speaking , fhould be fo ftudioufly practifed by many speak- ers , and fo much admired by many hearers . Can a method of reading , which is ...
... kind of read- ing , which has fo little merit confidered as mufic , and none at all confidered as speaking , fhould be fo ftudioufly practifed by many speak- ers , and fo much admired by many hearers . Can a method of reading , which is ...
Page xxi
... kind , the tone of the paffion will often require a ftill lower cadence of the voice . But before a fpeaker can be able to fall his voice with pro- priety and judgment at the close of a sentence , he must be able to keep it from falling ...
... kind , the tone of the paffion will often require a ftill lower cadence of the voice . But before a fpeaker can be able to fall his voice with pro- priety and judgment at the close of a sentence , he must be able to keep it from falling ...
Page xxii
... kind of feeling ufually accompanies our words , and this , whatever it be , hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little ftudied in public fpeaking , that we seem almost to have forgotten the language of ...
... kind of feeling ufually accompanies our words , and this , whatever it be , hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little ftudied in public fpeaking , that we seem almost to have forgotten the language of ...
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... kind . SHINING characters are not always the most agreeable ones . The mild radiance of an emerald , is by no means lefs pleafing than the glare of the ruby . To be at once a rake , and to glory in the character , dif- covers at the ...
... kind . SHINING characters are not always the most agreeable ones . The mild radiance of an emerald , is by no means lefs pleafing than the glare of the ruby . To be at once a rake , and to glory in the character , dif- covers at the ...
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