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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... art of fpeaking , which should render it incapable of receiving aid from precepts ? PRESUMING PRESUMING then , that the acquifition of the art of xii ESSAY ON Edward and Warwick Orlando and Adam Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of.
... art of fpeaking , which should render it incapable of receiving aid from precepts ? PRESUMING PRESUMING then , that the acquifition of the art of xii ESSAY ON Edward and Warwick Orlando and Adam Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of.
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... should be taken to discover and correct thofe faults in articulation , which , though often afcribed to fome defect in the organs of speech , are generally the confequence of inattention or bad example . SOME perfons find it difficult ...
... should be taken to discover and correct thofe faults in articulation , which , though often afcribed to fome defect in the organs of speech , are generally the confequence of inattention or bad example . SOME perfons find it difficult ...
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... should be thrown as far backward as poffible . This rule has occafioned much pedantic and irregular pronunciation ; and has , perhaps , introduced all the uncertainty which attends the accenting of several English words . RULE RULE VI ...
... should be thrown as far backward as poffible . This rule has occafioned much pedantic and irregular pronunciation ; and has , perhaps , introduced all the uncertainty which attends the accenting of several English words . RULE RULE VI ...
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... should be perfectly acquainted with the exact conftruction , and full meaning , of every fentence which he recites . Without this it is im- poffible to give those inflections and variations to the voice , which nature requires : and it ...
... should be perfectly acquainted with the exact conftruction , and full meaning , of every fentence which he recites . Without this it is im- poffible to give those inflections and variations to the voice , which nature requires : and it ...
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... should be accompanied with a correfpondent energy of pronunciation . For example ; One truth is clear ; Whatever is , is right . The principal words , which serve to mark the divifions of a discourse , should be diftinguished in the ...
... should be accompanied with a correfpondent energy of pronunciation . For example ; One truth is clear ; Whatever is , is right . The principal words , which serve to mark the divifions of a discourse , should be diftinguished in the ...
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