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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... variety of pronuncia- tion , perhaps the best way will be to draw the line between those words where e is pronounced , and those where it is not ; and this , by the help of the RHYMING DICTIONARY , I am easily enabled to do . In the ...
... variety of pronuncia- tion , perhaps the best way will be to draw the line between those words where e is pronounced , and those where it is not ; and this , by the help of the RHYMING DICTIONARY , I am easily enabled to do . In the ...
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... variety , and ease . Agree- ably to this definition , reading may be consi- dered as that species of delivery , which not only expresses the sense of an author , so as barely to be understood , but which , at the same time , gives it ...
... variety , and ease . Agree- ably to this definition , reading may be consi- dered as that species of delivery , which not only expresses the sense of an author , so as barely to be understood , but which , at the same time , gives it ...
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... variety and beauty which recommends it to the ear ; for in speak- ing , as in other arts , the useful and the agree- able are almost always found to coincide , and every real embellishment promotes and perfects the principal design . In ...
... variety and beauty which recommends it to the ear ; for in speak- ing , as in other arts , the useful and the agree- able are almost always found to coincide , and every real embellishment promotes and perfects the principal design . In ...
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... variety in reading or speaking as the sense and the satis- faction of the ear demand , yet we hardly ever hear a pronunciation perfectly monotonous . In former times we might have found it in the mid- night pronunciation of the bell ...
... variety in reading or speaking as the sense and the satis- faction of the ear demand , yet we hardly ever hear a pronunciation perfectly monotonous . In former times we might have found it in the mid- night pronunciation of the bell ...
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... variety with which the ear is so much delighted . This monotone may be defined to be a con- tinuation or sameness of sound upon certain syllables of a word , exactly like that produced by repeatedly striking a bell ; -such a stroke may ...
... variety with which the ear is so much delighted . This monotone may be defined to be a con- tinuation or sameness of sound upon certain syllables of a word , exactly like that produced by repeatedly striking a bell ; -such a stroke may ...
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