Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking ... to which are Prefixed, Elements of Gesture ... and Rules for Expressing, with Propriety, the Various Passions, &c. of the Mind |
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... appear in the countenance , and operate on the body ; but this system , however useful to people of riper years , is too delicate and complicated to be taught in schools . Indeed the exact adaptation of the action to the word , and the ...
... appear in the countenance , and operate on the body ; but this system , however useful to people of riper years , is too delicate and complicated to be taught in schools . Indeed the exact adaptation of the action to the word , and the ...
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... appear , how much more difficult and complicated is the action of a scene , than that of a single speech ; and , in teaching both to children , how necessary it is , to adopt as simple and easy a method as possible . The easiest method ...
... appear , how much more difficult and complicated is the action of a scene , than that of a single speech ; and , in teaching both to children , how necessary it is , to adopt as simple and easy a method as possible . The easiest method ...
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... appears in a won- derously striking manner , in the works of the painter and statuary ; who have the delicate art of making the flat canvass and rocky marble utter every passion of the hu- man mind , and touch the soul of the spectator ...
... appears in a won- derously striking manner , in the works of the painter and statuary ; who have the delicate art of making the flat canvass and rocky marble utter every passion of the hu- man mind , and touch the soul of the spectator ...
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... appear- ance of either disgust or favor . The accents slow , dis- tinct , emphatical , accompanied with little action , and that very grave . Reproving , puts on a stern aspect , roughens the voice , and is accompanied with gestures not ...
... appear- ance of either disgust or favor . The accents slow , dis- tinct , emphatical , accompanied with little action , and that very grave . Reproving , puts on a stern aspect , roughens the voice , and is accompanied with gestures not ...
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... appear neither to understand or feel what they say themselves , nor to have any desire that it should be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault ; a speaker without energy is a lifeless statue . In order to ...
... appear neither to understand or feel what they say themselves , nor to have any desire that it should be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault ; a speaker without energy is a lifeless statue . In order to ...
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