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Page vi
It is the beauty arising from variety of sound , and not from the mere adjustment of letters .-I speak not now of the kind of sound , but of its regular distribution . On its particular qualities , I shall make subsequent remarks .
It is the beauty arising from variety of sound , and not from the mere adjustment of letters .-I speak not now of the kind of sound , but of its regular distribution . On its particular qualities , I shall make subsequent remarks .
Page viii
... than the finished and regular adjustment of that time on the literal elementary sounds of our language . ... to give as clear a description of this powerful and expressive agent , as grapphic representations of sound will permit .
... than the finished and regular adjustment of that time on the literal elementary sounds of our language . ... to give as clear a description of this powerful and expressive agent , as grapphic representations of sound will permit .
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Although the continuous movement of the voice , in giving utterance to these sounds , precludes the possibility of ... and the latter , terminating in the sound of E , as heard in Eve , presenting to the ear a vocal dipthong .
Although the continuous movement of the voice , in giving utterance to these sounds , precludes the possibility of ... and the latter , terminating in the sound of E , as heard in Eve , presenting to the ear a vocal dipthong .
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X rather A , as sounded in A - we ) and termipates its gliding impulse on the elementary sound of D. If the reader should be disposed to doubt the execution of Quantity on the class which I have selected from the consonants , without ...
X rather A , as sounded in A - we ) and termipates its gliding impulse on the elementary sound of D. If the reader should be disposed to doubt the execution of Quantity on the class which I have selected from the consonants , without ...
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With the impression of the sound of A , No. 8 , on his ear , let him now strike the opposite column on the 8th degree , and gradually descend . By this practice he will become acquainted with the regular ascent and descent of the voice ...
With the impression of the sound of A , No. 8 , on his ear , let him now strike the opposite column on the 8th degree , and gradually descend . By this practice he will become acquainted with the regular ascent and descent of the voice ...
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Page 131 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 124 - Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, Sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Page 129 - I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 138 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him?
Page 130 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 152 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 255 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking : and when the people saw it, they removed. and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear : but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Page 139 - But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar; I found it in his closet; it is his will. Let but the commons hear this testament — Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins...
Page 130 - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy ; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried ' Help me, Cassius, or I sink...
Page 119 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
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| Title | Exercises in Reading and Recitations: Founded on the Enquiry in the Elementary Constitution of the Human Voice |
| Author | John Barber |
| Publisher | G. J, Loomis, 1828 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | May 30, 2007 |
| Length | 300 pages |
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