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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... thing to be able to read and speak with propriety , but to point out a practicable and easy method by which this accomplishment may be acquired . Follow Nature , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without a regard to which ...
... thing to be able to read and speak with propriety , but to point out a practicable and easy method by which this accomplishment may be acquired . Follow Nature , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without a regard to which ...
Pagina 13
... thing as fpeaking loud ; and not obferving , that whether a speaker fhall be heard or not , depends more upon the diftinctness and force with which he utters his words , than upon the height at which he pitches his voice . But it is an ...
... thing as fpeaking loud ; and not obferving , that whether a speaker fhall be heard or not , depends more upon the diftinctness and force with which he utters his words , than upon the height at which he pitches his voice . But it is an ...
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... thing higher . This may be irksome and difagreeable ; it may require much patience and refolu- tion ; but it is the only way to fucceed . For , if a man cannot read fimple fentences , or plain narrative , or didac- tic pieces , with ...
... thing higher . This may be irksome and difagreeable ; it may require much patience and refolu- tion ; but it is the only way to fucceed . For , if a man cannot read fimple fentences , or plain narrative , or didac- tic pieces , with ...
Pagina 25
... things . Even virtue itself hath its stated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . It is much better to reprove , than to be ...
... things . Even virtue itself hath its stated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . It is much better to reprove , than to be ...
Pagina 27
... things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he play- ed upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by another's learn- ing C 2 CHAP . 3 . 27 SELECT SENTENCES .
... things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he play- ed upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by another's learn- ing C 2 CHAP . 3 . 27 SELECT SENTENCES .
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