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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... whole language , c , s , and t , pre- ceded by the accent , either primary or second- ary , and followed by ea , ia , io , or any similar diphthong , always become aspirated , and are pronounced as if written she . Thus the very same ...
... whole language , c , s , and t , pre- ceded by the accent , either primary or second- ary , and followed by ea , ia , io , or any similar diphthong , always become aspirated , and are pronounced as if written she . Thus the very same ...
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... whole of the rent , before he parted with the land . And the superior distinctness of pronouncing it with the and d , finished by a smart separation of the organs , and somewhat as if written He re- ceive - de . the whole of the ren ...
... whole of the rent , before he parted with the land . And the superior distinctness of pronouncing it with the and d , finished by a smart separation of the organs , and somewhat as if written He re- ceive - de . the whole of the ren ...
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... whole pro- nunciation , and therefore ought to be most carefully guarded against . These terminations , therefore , ought to be pronounced as distinctly as if written , nashun , occazhun , & c . The diph- thong io , for want of the ...
... whole pro- nunciation , and therefore ought to be most carefully guarded against . These terminations , therefore , ought to be pronounced as distinctly as if written , nashun , occazhun , & c . The diph- thong io , for want of the ...
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... whole doctrine of rhetorical punctuation to a few plain simple principles , which may enable the reader , in some measure , to point for him- self : for this purpose , it will , in the first place , be necessary to exhibit a general ...
... whole doctrine of rhetorical punctuation to a few plain simple principles , which may enable the reader , in some measure , to point for him- self : for this purpose , it will , in the first place , be necessary to exhibit a general ...
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... whole nominative to the verb , without a pause , we shall soon perceive an impro- per classification of words : which proves that pausing is relative , and that a pause is proper or improper , not absolutely and considered by itself ...
... whole nominative to the verb , without a pause , we shall soon perceive an impro- per classification of words : which proves that pausing is relative , and that a pause is proper or improper , not absolutely and considered by itself ...
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