A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected, and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out ... To which are Added, Outlines of Composition, Or, Plain Rules for Writing Orations, and Speaking Them in Public ...J. Johnson ... J. Walker ... G. Wilkie, and J. Robinson ... and G. Robinson ... and T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 - 373 pages |
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Page iii
... attention to their language , but , by an Her- culean labour , afforded them a guide which has conducted them to a thousand improvements . This was sufficient to attract the admiration and acknowledgments of your country , if you had ...
... attention to their language , but , by an Her- culean labour , afforded them a guide which has conducted them to a thousand improvements . This was sufficient to attract the admiration and acknowledgments of your country , if you had ...
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... attention of the public . He has already written largely on it , but has still something to add . By the blessing of Providence he has lived long enough to see the truth of his principles universally assented to , and , in some ...
... attention of the public . He has already written largely on it , but has still something to add . By the blessing of Providence he has lived long enough to see the truth of his principles universally assented to , and , in some ...
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... attention to only one of these letters at a time , and fixing by habit the true sound of that , we shall at last find both of them reduced to their proper pronunciation , in a shorter time than by endeavouring to rectify them both at ...
... attention to only one of these letters at a time , and fixing by habit the true sound of that , we shall at last find both of them reduced to their proper pronunciation , in a shorter time than by endeavouring to rectify them both at ...
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... attention to it ; but when , from the nicest ob- servation of the best speakers , I find letters given up , with respect to sound , I then consider them as ciphers . It is from observation I can assert , that our best speakers do not ...
... attention to it ; but when , from the nicest ob- servation of the best speakers , I find letters given up , with respect to sound , I then consider them as ciphers . It is from observation I can assert , that our best speakers do not ...
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... - tice of the best speakers ; and without all ques- tion , this is the principal object of attention ; but with the same advice that others give , I have 38 RHETORICAL GRAMMAR . How to pronounce the Word to when succeeded by you.
... - tice of the best speakers ; and without all ques- tion , this is the principal object of attention ; but with the same advice that others give , I have 38 RHETORICAL GRAMMAR . How to pronounce the Word to when succeeded by you.
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