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 is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pagina's |
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Pagina xviii
... foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the ground- lings . " Cicero compares fuch fpeakers to cripples . who get on horfeback becaufe they cannot walk , they bellow , because they cannot speak ...
... foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the ground- lings . " Cicero compares fuch fpeakers to cripples . who get on horfeback becaufe they cannot walk , they bellow , because they cannot speak ...
Pagina xxv
... foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious at- tempt to read melodioufly . Agreeable inflexions and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they arise from , or are confiftent with just speaking , are de- serving of attention ...
... foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious at- tempt to read melodioufly . Agreeable inflexions and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they arise from , or are confiftent with just speaking , are de- serving of attention ...
Pagina 2
... 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 . PHILOSOPHY 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 . PHILOSOPHY is then only valuable , when it ...
Pagina 6
... foul of great- nefs , are a fort of incommunicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath ... fouls ; without this the highest state of life is infipid , and with it the lowest is a paradise . CHAP HONOURABLE ...
... foul of great- nefs , are a fort of incommunicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath ... fouls ; without this the highest state of life is infipid , and with it the lowest is a paradise . CHAP HONOURABLE ...
Pagina 9
... foul . He who tells a lie is not fenfible how great a task he un- dertakes : for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one .. SOME people will never learn any thing , for this reason , because they understand every ...
... foul . He who tells a lie is not fenfible how great a task he un- dertakes : for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one .. SOME people will never learn any thing , for this reason , because they understand every ...
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