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 ElocutionJ. Johnson, 1782 - 405 sivua |
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... thing to be able to read and fpeak with propriety , but to point out a practicable and eafy 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 fpeak with propriety , but to point out a practicable and eafy method by which this accomplishment may be acquired . FOLLOW NATURE , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without a regard to which ...
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... fpeak- ing in a high key is the fame thing as fpeaking loud ; and not observing , that whether a speaker fhall be heard or not , depends more upon the a 6 diftin & tnefs diftinctnefs and force with which he utters his words , ELOCUTION .
... fpeak- ing in a high key is the fame thing as fpeaking loud ; and not observing , that whether a speaker fhall be heard or not , depends more upon the a 6 diftin & tnefs diftinctnefs and force with which he utters his words , ELOCUTION .
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... thing higher . This may be irksome and dif- agreeable ; it may require much patience and re- folution ; but it is the only way to fucceed . For , if a man connot read fimple fentences , or plain narrative or didactic pieces , with ...
... thing higher . This may be irksome and dif- agreeable ; it may require much patience and re- folution ; but it is the only way to fucceed . For , if a man connot read fimple fentences , or plain narrative or didactic pieces , with ...
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... things . Even virtue itfelf hath its ftated limits ; which not being ftrictly obferved , it ceafes to be virtue . Ir is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . Ir is much better to reprove , than to be ...
... things . Even virtue itfelf hath its ftated limits ; which not being ftrictly obferved , it ceafes to be virtue . Ir is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . Ir is much better to reprove , than to be ...
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... things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only drew ... thing , who perhaps may excel us in many . No object is more pleafing to the eye , than the fight of a man whom you ...
... things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only drew ... thing , who perhaps may excel us in many . No object is more pleafing to the eye , than the fight of a man whom you ...
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