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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... SOME perfons find it difficult to articulate the letter 1 ; others , the fimple founds expreffed by r , s , th , fh . But the inftance of defective articulation which is moft common , and therefore requires particular notice , is the ...
... SOME perfons find it difficult to articulate the letter 1 ; others , the fimple founds expreffed by r , s , th , fh . But the inftance of defective articulation which is moft common , and therefore requires particular notice , is the ...
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... Some words confifting of feveral fyllables admit of two accents , one more forcible than the other , but both fufficiently distinguishable from the unaccented parts of the word ; as in the words , monumental , manifestation ...
... Some words confifting of feveral fyllables admit of two accents , one more forcible than the other , but both fufficiently distinguishable from the unaccented parts of the word ; as in the words , monumental , manifestation ...
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... Some fentences are so constructed , that the laft words require a ftronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; while others admit of being closed with a soft and gentle found . b 3 found . Where there is nothing in the fenfe which ...
... Some fentences are so constructed , that the laft words require a ftronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; while others admit of being closed with a soft and gentle found . b 3 found . Where there is nothing in the fenfe which ...
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... some relation to the reft ; and all should unite to produce one regular whole . Denique fit quidvis fimplex duntaxat et unum . A thought may be just ; a description may be beautiful ; a fentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not ...
... some relation to the reft ; and all should unite to produce one regular whole . Denique fit quidvis fimplex duntaxat et unum . A thought may be just ; a description may be beautiful ; a fentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not ...
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... some degree similar to that , which is produced by a melodious fucceffion of mufical notes . This effect is heightened , when the di- visions of distinct claufes , and the cadences at the close of entire sentences , are agreeably ...
... some degree similar to that , which is produced by a melodious fucceffion of mufical notes . This effect is heightened , when the di- visions of distinct claufes , and the cadences at the close of entire sentences , are agreeably ...
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