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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Page xii
... use till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To difcover and correct those tones , and habits of speaking , which are grofs de- viations from nature , and as far as they prevail must de- ftroy all propriety and grace ...
... use till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To difcover and correct those tones , and habits of speaking , which are grofs de- viations from nature , and as far as they prevail must de- ftroy all propriety and grace ...
Page xiv
... use of for a confiderable time at first : for where there is an uniformly rapid utterance , it is abfolutely impoffible that there fhould be ftrong emphafis , natural tones , or any just elocution . AIM at nothing higher , till you can ...
... use of for a confiderable time at first : for where there is an uniformly rapid utterance , it is abfolutely impoffible that there fhould be ftrong emphafis , natural tones , or any just elocution . AIM at nothing higher , till you can ...
Page xvii
... use , than in the key in which they speak . Reading and fpeaking , therefore , in which all the varia- tions of expreffion in real life are copied , must have continual variations in the height of the voice . To acquire the power of ...
... use , than in the key in which they speak . Reading and fpeaking , therefore , in which all the varia- tions of expreffion in real life are copied , must have continual variations in the height of the voice . To acquire the power of ...
Page xxiii
... use in determining the fenfe of doubtful expreffions . The following short sentence admits of three different meanings , according to the place of the emphasis : Do you intend to go to London this fummer ? I FOR FOR want of attending to ...
... use in determining the fenfe of doubtful expreffions . The following short sentence admits of three different meanings , according to the place of the emphasis : Do you intend to go to London this fummer ? I FOR FOR want of attending to ...
Page xxvii
... use of points is to affift the reader in difcerning the grammati- cal construction ; and it is only indirectly that they re- gulate his pronunciation . In reading , it may often be proper to make a pause , where the printer has made ...
... use of points is to affift the reader in difcerning the grammati- cal construction ; and it is only indirectly that they re- gulate his pronunciation . In reading , it may often be proper to make a pause , where the printer has made ...
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