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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... right as a firm position on the right leg will permit . The right arms must then be held out with the palm open , the fingers straight and close , the thumb almost as distant from them as it will go , and the flat of the hand neither ...
... right as a firm position on the right leg will permit . The right arms must then be held out with the palm open , the fingers straight and close , the thumb almost as distant from them as it will go , and the flat of the hand neither ...
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... hand raises itself into exactly the same position as the right was before , and continues in this position till the end of the next sentence , when it drops down on the side as if dead ; and the body , poizing itself on the right leg ...
... hand raises itself into exactly the same position as the right was before , and continues in this position till the end of the next sentence , when it drops down on the side as if dead ; and the body , poizing itself on the right leg ...
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... right and left sides only reversed , and while the pupil is speaking , to show him by example the action he is to make use of . In this case , the teacher's left hand will correspond to the pupil's right , by which means he will see as ...
... right and left sides only reversed , and while the pupil is speaking , to show him by example the action he is to make use of . In this case , the teacher's left hand will correspond to the pupil's right , by which means he will see as ...
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... hand : that is , sup- posing the stage or platform where they stand to be a quadrangle , each speaker should ... right hand and stand exactly fronting each other , the impropriety will be palpable and 12 ELEMENTS Jupiter to the ...
... hand : that is , sup- posing the stage or platform where they stand to be a quadrangle , each speaker should ... right hand and stand exactly fronting each other , the impropriety will be palpable and 12 ELEMENTS Jupiter to the ...
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... right hand - the most favorable to grace and expres- sion . And if from so humble a scene as the school , we may be permitted to raise our observations to the senate , it might be hinted , that gentlemen on each side of the house ...
... right hand - the most favorable to grace and expres- sion . And if from so humble a scene as the school , we may be permitted to raise our observations to the senate , it might be hinted , that gentlemen on each side of the house ...
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