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 vi
... use till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To observe the various ways by which nature expref- ses the feveral perceptions , emotions and paffions . of the human mind , and to distinguish these from the mere effect ...
... use till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To observe the various ways by which nature expref- ses the feveral perceptions , emotions and paffions . of the human mind , and to distinguish these from the mere effect ...
Page viii
... , that this latter exercise ought generally to be made use of for a confiderable time at firft : for where there is a uniformly uniformly rapid utterance , it is abfolutely im- poffible that viii AN ESSAY ON Hymn to Adverfity.
... , that this latter exercise ought generally to be made use of for a confiderable time at firft : for where there is a uniformly uniformly rapid utterance , it is abfolutely im- poffible that viii AN ESSAY ON Hymn to Adverfity.
Page xx
... use of points is to affift the reader in dif- cerning the grammatical conftruction , not to direct his pronunciation . In reading , it may often be proper to make a pause where the printer has made none . Nay , it is very allow- able ...
... use of points is to affift the reader in dif- cerning the grammatical conftruction , not to direct his pronunciation . In reading , it may often be proper to make a pause where the printer has made none . Nay , it is very allow- able ...
Page xxii
... use of tones , looks , and geftures . When anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other active paffion arifes . in our minds , we naturally discover it by the particular manner in which we utter our words ; by the features of the ...
... use of tones , looks , and geftures . When anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other active paffion arifes . in our minds , we naturally discover it by the particular manner in which we utter our words ; by the features of the ...
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... use of the language . All endeavours therefore to make men Orators by describing to them in words the manner in which their voice , countenance , and hands are to be employed , in expreffing the paffions , muft in my apprehenfion , be ...
... use of the language . All endeavours therefore to make men Orators by describing to them in words the manner in which their voice , countenance , and hands are to be employed , in expreffing the paffions , muft in my apprehenfion , be ...
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