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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... EMPHASIS . THERE are in every fentence certain words , which have a greater fhare in conveying the speaker's meaning than the reft , and are , on this account , diftin- guifhed by the forcible manner in which they are uttered . Thus in ...
... EMPHASIS . THERE are in every fentence certain words , which have a greater fhare in conveying the speaker's meaning than the reft , and are , on this account , diftin- guifhed by the forcible manner in which they are uttered . Thus in ...
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... emphasis and good difcretion . It is another office of Emphasis to express the oppo- fition between the feveral parts of a fentence , where the ideas are contrafted or compared ; as in the following fentences : When our vices leave us ...
... emphasis and good difcretion . It is another office of Emphasis to express the oppo- fition between the feveral parts of a fentence , where the ideas are contrafted or compared ; as in the following fentences : When our vices leave us ...
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... emphasis ; as , TO BE , contents his natural defire . Sir Balaam now , he lives like other folks . Then you will pass into Africa : WILL pafs , did I say ? IN expreffing any maxim , or doctrine , which contains much meaning in a few ...
... emphasis ; as , TO BE , contents his natural defire . Sir Balaam now , he lives like other folks . Then you will pass into Africa : WILL pafs , did I say ? IN expreffing any maxim , or doctrine , which contains much meaning in a few ...
Page xxiv
... emphasis , the following paffage of fcripture is often misunderstood : If therefore the light that is IN thee be darkness , how great is THAT darkness ! In order to acquire a habit of speaking with a juft and forcible emphafis , nothing ...
... emphasis , the following paffage of fcripture is often misunderstood : If therefore the light that is IN thee be darkness , how great is THAT darkness ! In order to acquire a habit of speaking with a juft and forcible emphafis , nothing ...
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... EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . In reading verfe , this fault fome- times arifes from a falfe notion of the neceffity of pre- ferving an alternate fucceffion of unaccented and ac- cented ...
... EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . In reading verfe , this fault fome- times arifes from a falfe notion of the neceffity of pre- ferving an alternate fucceffion of unaccented and ac- cented ...
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