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Page 20
... emphatical , or expreffive of more forcible Affections or Impreffions than others , fo the Voice will either dwell longer on thofe The Ear cannot be long pleafed with one and the fame Sound continued , nor different Impreffions be made ...
... emphatical , or expreffive of more forcible Affections or Impreffions than others , fo the Voice will either dwell longer on thofe The Ear cannot be long pleafed with one and the fame Sound continued , nor different Impreffions be made ...
Page 27
... Speech , any further than as the last Sylla ble may be lefs forcible or emphatical than the reft . Nothing would be more pre- pofterous pofterous than fuch a Sinking , merely for the Sake Of the Modulation of Speech . 27.
... Speech , any further than as the last Sylla ble may be lefs forcible or emphatical than the reft . Nothing would be more pre- pofterous pofterous than fuch a Sinking , merely for the Sake Of the Modulation of Speech . 27.
Page 60
... emphatical the long will not be fo loud as the short , their Force being inversely proportional to their Length . Their natural Length , however , would not , in this Cafe , be ne- ceffarily altered ; for they would not be Short ...
... emphatical the long will not be fo loud as the short , their Force being inversely proportional to their Length . Their natural Length , however , would not , in this Cafe , be ne- ceffarily altered ; for they would not be Short ...
Page 75
... emphatical Words . As to the farther Ufe of the Accent in combining Syllables into Words , so much infifted on by Mr. Sheridan , I fhall fhew the Futility of it at large in the next Section .. Not a mufical Tenor or Medium between high ...
... emphatical Words . As to the farther Ufe of the Accent in combining Syllables into Words , so much infifted on by Mr. Sheridan , I fhall fhew the Futility of it at large in the next Section .. Not a mufical Tenor or Medium between high ...
Page 88
... emphatical Mode which gives to articulate Voices their due Proportion of Sound , agreeable to their Significance and natural Conftruction . It is farther to be observed , that the colloquial Abbrevia tions and Contractions , which are ...
... emphatical Mode which gives to articulate Voices their due Proportion of Sound , agreeable to their Significance and natural Conftruction . It is farther to be observed , that the colloquial Abbrevia tions and Contractions , which are ...
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