The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionSimms&McIntyre, 1811 - 644 pages |
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... SPEAKING . TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ESSAY ON ELOCUTION . November 24- 1813 BY WILLIAM ENFIELD , LL . D. .... Oculus , paulum tellure moratus , Sustulit ad proceres ; expectatoque resolvit Ora sono ; nec abest facundis gratia dictis ...
... SPEAKING . TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ESSAY ON ELOCUTION . November 24- 1813 BY WILLIAM ENFIELD , LL . D. .... Oculus , paulum tellure moratus , Sustulit ad proceres ; expectatoque resolvit Ora sono ; nec abest facundis gratia dictis ...
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... speak well is an ornamental and useful accomplishment . Without the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators , the importance of a good elocution is sufficiently obvious . Every one will acknowledge it to be of some consequence ...
... speak well is an ornamental and useful accomplishment . Without the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators , the importance of a good elocution is sufficiently obvious . Every one will acknowledge it to be of some consequence ...
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... speaking . as well as in the art of living . that general precepts are of little use till they are unfolded and applied to particular cases . To observe the various ways by which nature expresses the several perceptions , emo- tions and ...
... speaking . as well as in the art of living . that general precepts are of little use till they are unfolded and applied to particular cases . To observe the various ways by which nature expresses the several perceptions , emo- tions and ...
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... speaking would require . Almost all persons , who have not studied the art of speaking , have a habit of uttering their words - so rapidly , that this latter exer- cise ought ... speak slow , all other graces Will follow ELOCUTION .
... speaking would require . Almost all persons , who have not studied the art of speaking , have a habit of uttering their words - so rapidly , that this latter exer- cise ought ... speak slow , all other graces Will follow ELOCUTION .
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William Enfield. LEARN to speak slow , all other graces Will follow in their proper places . 0000 RULE II . Let your ... speaking ; let all the consonant sounds be expressed with a full impulse or percussion of the breath , and a forcible ...
William Enfield. LEARN to speak slow , all other graces Will follow in their proper places . 0000 RULE II . Let your ... speaking ; let all the consonant sounds be expressed with a full impulse or percussion of the breath , and a forcible ...
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