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... senses than one . The Inferior emphasis enforces , graces , and enlivens , but does not fix , the meaning of any passage . The words to which this latter emphasis is given , are in general , such as seem the most important in the ...
... senses than one . The Inferior emphasis enforces , graces , and enlivens , but does not fix , the meaning of any passage . The words to which this latter emphasis is given , are in general , such as seem the most important in the ...
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... sense of the passage , and always made alike : but as to the inferior emphasis , taste alone seems to have the right of fixing its situation and quantity . Among the number of persons , who have had proper opportunities of learn- ing to ...
... sense of the passage , and always made alike : but as to the inferior emphasis , taste alone seems to have the right of fixing its situation and quantity . Among the number of persons , who have had proper opportunities of learn- ing to ...
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... sense and attention . It is far from being an inconsiderable attainment . It is one of the most decisive trials of a true and just taste ; and must arise from feeling delicately ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest ...
... sense and attention . It is far from being an inconsiderable attainment . It is one of the most decisive trials of a true and just taste ; and must arise from feeling delicately ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest ...
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... sense . An emphatical pause is generally made after something has been said of peculiar moment , and on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention . Sometimes , before such a thing is said , we usher it in with a pause of this nature ...
... sense . An emphatical pause is generally made after something has been said of peculiar moment , and on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention . Sometimes , before such a thing is said , we usher it in with a pause of this nature ...
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... sense ; the inflection attending the third pause signifies that the sense is completed . The preceding example is an illustration of the suspending pause , in its sim ple state : the following instance exhibits that pause with a degree ...
... sense ; the inflection attending the third pause signifies that the sense is completed . The preceding example is an illustration of the suspending pause , in its sim ple state : the following instance exhibits that pause with a degree ...
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The English Reader: Or Pieces in Prose and Verse, From the Best Writers ... Lindley Murray No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 91 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befal me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.