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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... give us a regular system of gesture , suited to the wants and capacities of school - boys . Mr. Burgh , in his Art of Speaking , has given us a system of the passions ; and has shown us how they appear in the countenance , and operate ...
... give us a regular system of gesture , suited to the wants and capacities of school - boys . Mr. Burgh , in his Art of Speaking , has given us a system of the passions ; and has shown us how they appear in the countenance , and operate ...
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... give any instructions , but such as should completely answer our wishes , this difficulty would be a good reason for not at- tempting to give any description of it . But there are many degrees between conveying a precise idea of a thing ...
... give any instructions , but such as should completely answer our wishes , this difficulty would be a good reason for not at- tempting to give any description of it . But there are many degrees between conveying a precise idea of a thing ...
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... gives the emphatic stroke . And above all , the body must be kept in a straight line with the leg on which it bears , and not suffered to bend to the opposite side . At first it may not be improper for the teacher , after placing the ...
... gives the emphatic stroke . And above all , the body must be kept in a straight line with the leg on which it bears , and not suffered to bend to the opposite side . At first it may not be improper for the teacher , after placing the ...
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... give some additional instructions respect- ing action , as a speaker who delivers himself singly to an auditory , and one who addresses another speaker in view of an auditory , are under very different predica- ments . The first has ...
... give some additional instructions respect- ing action , as a speaker who delivers himself singly to an auditory , and one who addresses another speaker in view of an auditory , are under very different predica- ments . The first has ...
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... give it additional force and variety . Thus , what seemed either unworthy the attention , or too difficult for the execution of others , the author of the present publication has ventured to attempt . A convic- tion of the necessity of ...
... give it additional force and variety . Thus , what seemed either unworthy the attention , or too difficult for the execution of others , the author of the present publication has ventured to attempt . A convic- tion of the necessity of ...
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