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. To which are Prefixed Two Essays |
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Page ix
... Nature , is certainly the fundamental law of Ora- · tory , without regard to which , all other rules will only pro- duce affected declamation , not just elocution . And some accurate observers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky ...
... Nature , is certainly the fundamental law of Ora- · tory , without regard to which , all other rules will only pro- duce affected declamation , not just elocution . And some accurate observers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky ...
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... nature of the subject , and the kind of discourse or writing to be delivered , whether it be narrative , didactic , argumentative , oratorical , colloquial , descriptive , or pathetic ; must be the result of much attention and labour ...
... nature of the subject , and the kind of discourse or writing to be delivered , whether it be narrative , didactic , argumentative , oratorical , colloquial , descriptive , or pathetic ; must be the result of much attention and labour ...
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... Nature instructs us to relate a story , to support an argument , to command a servant , to utter excla- mations of rage or anger , and to pour forth lamentations and sorrows , not only with different tones , but with different ele ...
... Nature instructs us to relate a story , to support an argument , to command a servant , to utter excla- mations of rage or anger , and to pour forth lamentations and sorrows , not only with different tones , but with different ele ...
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... nature ; for Accent implies not an extension of time , but an increase of force . In the words , pity , enemy , the first syl- lable , though accented , is still short . Syllables may be long , which are not accented ; as appears in the ...
... nature ; for Accent implies not an extension of time , but an increase of force . In the words , pity , enemy , the first syl- lable , though accented , is still short . Syllables may be long , which are not accented ; as appears in the ...
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... natural , forcible , and varied EMPHASIS . THE HERE are in every sentence certain words , which have a greater share in ... Nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous study , more perhaps than from any other cause , that we so ...
... natural , forcible , and varied EMPHASIS . THE HERE are in every sentence certain words , which have a greater share in ... Nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous study , more perhaps than from any other cause , that we so ...
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