The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionW. Borrowdale, 1808 - 412 pagina's |
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Pagina 12
... foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to fplit the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples who get on horseback because they cannot walk : they bellow , because they cannot fpeak . RULE IH ...
... foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to fplit the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples who get on horseback because they cannot walk : they bellow , because they cannot fpeak . RULE IH ...
Pagina 18
... foul . Emphasis is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodioufly . Agreeable inflections and easy vari- ations of the voice , as far as they rife from , or are con- fiftent with juft fpeaking , are deferving of attention ...
... foul . Emphasis is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodioufly . Agreeable inflections and easy vari- ations of the voice , as far as they rife from , or are con- fiftent with juft fpeaking , are deferving of attention ...
Pagina 25
... and live upon contentedly . A contented mind , and a good conscience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . C There is but one way of fortifying the foul against Select Sentences BOOK I.
... and live upon contentedly . A contented mind , and a good conscience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . C There is but one way of fortifying the foul against Select Sentences BOOK I.
Pagina 26
... foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fe- curing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . Philofophy is then only valuable , when it ...
... foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fe- curing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . Philofophy is then only valuable , when it ...
Pagina 29
... stamp set upon base metal . Though an honourable title may be conveyed to pofte- sity , yet the ennobling qualities which are the foul of great- nefs , are a fort of incommunicable perfections , and € 3 CHAP . 4 . 29 SELECT SENTENCES .
... stamp set upon base metal . Though an honourable title may be conveyed to pofte- sity , yet the ennobling qualities which are the foul of great- nefs , are a fort of incommunicable perfections , and € 3 CHAP . 4 . 29 SELECT SENTENCES .
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