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 xii
... voice . TH HE monotony so much complained of in public speakers is chiefly owing to the neglect of this rule . They commonly content themselves with one certain key , which they employ on all occasions , and upon every subject : or if ...
... voice . TH HE monotony so much complained of in public speakers is chiefly owing to the neglect of this rule . They commonly content themselves with one certain key , which they employ on all occasions , and upon every subject : or if ...
Page xiii
... voice . Different kinds of speaking require different heights of voice . 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 ...
... voice . Different kinds of speaking require different heights of voice . 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 ...
Page xvi
... voice , which Nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous study , more perhaps than from any other cause , that we so often hear persons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all ; that is , with a stupid ...
... voice , which Nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous study , more perhaps than from any other cause , that we so often hear persons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all ; that is , with a stupid ...
Page xix
... voice , as far as they arise from , or are consistent with , just speaking , may deserve attention . But to substitute one unmeaning tune in the room of all the proprieties and graces of elocution , and then to applaud this manner under ...
... voice , as far as they arise from , or are consistent with , just speaking , may deserve attention . But to substitute one unmeaning tune in the room of all the proprieties and graces of elocution , and then to applaud this manner under ...
Page xx
... voice be sus- pended in such a manner as to intimate to the hearer , that the sense is not completed . The power of suspending the voice at pleasure is one of the most useful attainments in the art of speaking it enables the speaker to ...
... voice be sus- pended in such a manner as to intimate to the hearer , that the sense is not completed . The power of suspending the voice at pleasure is one of the most useful attainments in the art of speaking it enables the speaker to ...
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