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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... thing to be able to read and speak with propriety , but to point out a practicable and eafy method by which this accomplishment may be acquired . a 6 FOLLOW FOLLOW NATURE , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory ESSAY ESSAY SSAY on ...
... thing to be able to read and speak with propriety , but to point out a practicable and eafy method by which this accomplishment may be acquired . a 6 FOLLOW FOLLOW NATURE , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory ESSAY ESSAY SSAY on ...
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... thing as speaking loud ; and not observing , that whether a speaker shall be heard or not , depends more upon the diftinctnefs and force with which he utters his words , than upon the height of the key in which he speaks . WITHIN a ...
... thing as speaking loud ; and not observing , that whether a speaker shall be heard or not , depends more upon the diftinctnefs and force with which he utters his words , than upon the height of the key in which he speaks . WITHIN a ...
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... thing , be exceedingly imperfect , and confequently ineffectual . UPON this head , I fhall therefore only lay down the following general precept : obferve the manner in which the feveral paffions and feelings are expreffed in real life ...
... thing , be exceedingly imperfect , and confequently ineffectual . UPON this head , I fhall therefore only lay down the following general precept : obferve the manner in which the feveral paffions and feelings are expreffed in real life ...
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... thing higher . This may be irkfome and difagreeable ; it may require much patience and refolution ; but it is the only way to fucceed . For if a man cannot read fimple fentences , or cafy narrative or didactic pieces , with dif- tinct ...
... thing higher . This may be irkfome and difagreeable ; it may require much patience and refolution ; but it is the only way to fucceed . For if a man cannot read fimple fentences , or cafy narrative or didactic pieces , with dif- tinct ...
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... thing . For , what is reading , but a method of conferring with men who in every age have been moft diftinguished by their genius and learning , of becoming acquainted with the refult of their mature reflections , and of contem- plating ...
... thing . For , what is reading , but a method of conferring with men who in every age have been moft diftinguished by their genius and learning , of becoming acquainted with the refult of their mature reflections , and of contem- plating ...
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