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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... fall of the voice , or cadence , with which many readers uniformly finish a sentence . Nothing can be more de- structive of all propriety and energy than this habit . The tones and heights at the close of a sentence ought to be ...
... fall of the voice , or cadence , with which many readers uniformly finish a sentence . Nothing can be more de- structive of all propriety and energy than this habit . The tones and heights at the close of a sentence ought to be ...
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... fall his voice with propriety and judgment at the clofe of a fentence , he must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it , with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The best method of correcting an uniform cadence is ...
... fall his voice with propriety and judgment at the clofe of a fentence , he must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it , with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The best method of correcting an uniform cadence is ...
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... fall by little and little . A RICH man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers ; he speak eth things not to be spoken , and ...
... fall by little and little . A RICH man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers ; he speak eth things not to be spoken , and ...
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... falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft , Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The The virtue that poffeffion would not shew us Whilft it CHAP . IX . SELECT SENTENCES .
... falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft , Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The The virtue that poffeffion would not shew us Whilft it CHAP . IX . SELECT SENTENCES .
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... falling ill of the fame diftemper , he was afraid of being bereft of them all , and made a vow , if Heaven would not take him from him alfo , he would go in gratitude to St. Iago in Spain . WHEN the mourner got thus far in his story ...
... falling ill of the fame diftemper , he was afraid of being bereft of them all , and made a vow , if Heaven would not take him from him alfo , he would go in gratitude to St. Iago in Spain . WHEN the mourner got thus far in his story ...
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