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Page viii
... and with all the exertion you can command ; preserve your body in an erect attitude while you are speaking ; let all the consonant sounds be expressed with full impulse or percussion of the breath , and a forcible action of the ...
... and with all the exertion you can command ; preserve your body in an erect attitude while you are speaking ; let all the consonant sounds be expressed with full impulse or percussion of the breath , and a forcible action of the ...
Page xv
... for all purposes ? hin > > an fon nathe el RU LE VI I. a t ; Acquire a just variety of pause and cadence : One of the worst faults a speaker can have , is to make no other pauses than what he finds . barely necessary for breathing .
... for all purposes ? hin > > an fon nathe el RU LE VI I. a t ; Acquire a just variety of pause and cadence : One of the worst faults a speaker can have , is to make no other pauses than what he finds . barely necessary for breathing .
Page xxiii
... which may be improved , if not acquired , by exercise and habit , is pleasing , both in speaking and reading . On the eontrary , violence and clamour are extreme> ly vulgar and disagreeable . They exhaust your breath , xxiij.
... which may be improved , if not acquired , by exercise and habit , is pleasing , both in speaking and reading . On the eontrary , violence and clamour are extreme> ly vulgar and disagreeable . They exhaust your breath , xxiij.
Page xxiv
They exhaust your breath , and render your pronunciation indistinct and inarticulate . Quintilian speaks of certain orators , who exerted themselves so furiously , that they absolutely bellowed . And Cicero tells us , that the oratory ...
They exhaust your breath , and render your pronunciation indistinct and inarticulate . Quintilian speaks of certain orators , who exerted themselves so furiously , that they absolutely bellowed . And Cicero tells us , that the oratory ...
Page xxv
As the whole art of reading depends on the proper management of the breath , use it with ęconomy . Relieve your voice at every stop , slightly at a cornma , more leisurely at a semicolon , or colon , and completely at a period .
As the whole art of reading depends on the proper management of the breath , use it with ęconomy . Relieve your voice at every stop , slightly at a cornma , more leisurely at a semicolon , or colon , and completely at a period .
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| Title | The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for Reading |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Editor | William Enfield |
| Publisher | F. Louis, 1804 |
| Original from | Austrian National Library |
| Digitized | 30 May 2018 |
| Length | 376 pages |
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