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 9
... true in the art of fpeaking , as well as in the art of living , that general pre- cepts are of little ufe till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To obferve the various ways by ESSAY on Elocution CONTENTS.
... true in the art of fpeaking , as well as in the art of living , that general pre- cepts are of little ufe till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To obferve the various ways by ESSAY on Elocution CONTENTS.
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... true learning , combine the ease and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against the peculiarities and vulgarisms of provin- cial dialects . Those ...
... true learning , combine the ease and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against the peculiarities and vulgarisms of provin- cial dialects . Those ...
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... are pleased with the easy and graceful movements which the true gentleman has acquir * See Dean Swift's advice on this head in his Letter to a young Clergyman . ed by having learnt to dance ; but we are ELOCUTION . 23.
... are pleased with the easy and graceful movements which the true gentleman has acquir * See Dean Swift's advice on this head in his Letter to a young Clergyman . ed by having learnt to dance ; but we are ELOCUTION . 23.
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... true friends , that will be often changing them . Profperity gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a handsome addrefs , and graceful converfation . Complaifance renders a fuperior ...
... true friends , that will be often changing them . Profperity gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a handsome addrefs , and graceful converfation . Complaifance renders a fuperior ...
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... of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the sterling cash of true morality and religion . Perfons of great delicacy fhould know the certainty of the CHAP . 7 . 35 SELECT SENTENCES .
... of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the sterling cash of true morality and religion . Perfons of great delicacy fhould know the certainty of the CHAP . 7 . 35 SELECT SENTENCES .
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