The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers: Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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Page xiii
... rendered heavy and lifelefs , but the meaning left often ambiguous . If the emphasis be placed wrong , we pervert and confound the meaning wholly . B Emphasis may be divided into the SUPERIOR and the INFERIOR INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... rendered heavy and lifelefs , but the meaning left often ambiguous . If the emphasis be placed wrong , we pervert and confound the meaning wholly . B Emphasis may be divided into the SUPERIOR and the INFERIOR INTRODUCTION . xiii.
Page xiv
... SUPERIOR and the INFERIOR emphafis . The fuperior emphafis determines the meaning of a sentence , with reference to something faid before , prefuppofed by the author as general know- ledge , or removes an ambiguity , where a paffage may ...
... SUPERIOR and the INFERIOR emphafis . The fuperior emphafis determines the meaning of a sentence , with reference to something faid before , prefuppofed by the author as general know- ledge , or removes an ambiguity , where a paffage may ...
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... superior being But in the midft of ? all this happiness , as he lay indulging himself in 2 state , he sees let down from the ceiling , exactly ( over his head , a glittering fword hung by a fingle hair . The fight of impending ...
... superior being But in the midft of ? all this happiness , as he lay indulging himself in 2 state , he sees let down from the ceiling , exactly ( over his head , a glittering fword hung by a fingle hair . The fight of impending ...
Page 109
... new world . The Al- mighty beheld his work when it was finished ; and pronounced it GOOD . Superior beings faw with N The fun wonder this new acceffion to exiftence . " The morning Chap . V. 109 Defcriptive Pieces . Creation,
... new world . The Al- mighty beheld his work when it was finished ; and pronounced it GOOD . Superior beings faw with N The fun wonder this new acceffion to exiftence . " The morning Chap . V. 109 Defcriptive Pieces . Creation,
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