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I premise here , once for all , that I employ terms according to the best modern
use , with as little as possible of technical abstractness . Elocution , which
anciently embraced style , and the whole art of rhetoric , now signifies manner of
delivery ...
I premise here , once for all , that I employ terms according to the best modern
use , with as little as possible of technical abstractness . Elocution , which
anciently embraced style , and the whole art of rhetoric , now signifies manner of
delivery ...
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... in a voice neither feeble nor clamorSo fastidious was the Roman ear , even
among the uneducated , that the same orator says , " in repetition of a verse , the
whole theatre was in an uproar , if there happened to be one syllable too many or
...
... in a voice neither feeble nor clamorSo fastidious was the Roman ear , even
among the uneducated , that the same orator says , " in repetition of a verse , the
whole theatre was in an uproar , if there happened to be one syllable too many or
...
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... it belongs , and the sense of the whole sentence is ruined . But in the English
language , abounding as it does with particles , harsh syllables , and compound
words , both the necessity and the difficulty of a perfect utterance are greater still .
... it belongs , and the sense of the whole sentence is ruined . But in the English
language , abounding as it does with particles , harsh syllables , and compound
words , both the necessity and the difficulty of a perfect utterance are greater still .
Page 42
The falling inflection turns the voice downwards , or ends lower than it begins . It
is heard in the answer to a question ; as , No ; I shall go tomorrow . As the whole
doctrine of inflections depends on these two 42 TONES AND INFLECTIONS .
The falling inflection turns the voice downwards , or ends lower than it begins . It
is heard in the answer to a question ; as , No ; I shall go tomorrow . As the whole
doctrine of inflections depends on these two 42 TONES AND INFLECTIONS .
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As the whole doctrine of inflections depends on these two simple slides of the
voice , one more explanation seems necessary , as to the degree in which each
is applied , under different circumstances . In most cases where the rising slide is
...
As the whole doctrine of inflections depends on these two simple slides of the
voice , one more explanation seems necessary , as to the degree in which each
is applied , under different circumstances . In most cases where the rising slide is
...
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Page 270 - And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day : and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Page 254 - But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. 29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. 30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. 31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father?
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| Title | Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and Speaking |
| Author | Ebenezer Porter |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Flagg & Gould, 1828 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 404 pages |
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