The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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Page iii
... common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sen- tences with justness and facility , he will readily apply that habit , and the improvements he has made , to ...
... common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sen- tences with justness and facility , he will readily apply that habit , and the improvements he has made , to ...
Page x
... common : and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it has grown into a habit , few errors are more difficult to be cor- rected . To pronounce with a proper degree of slow- ness , and with full and clear articulation ...
... common : and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it has grown into a habit , few errors are more difficult to be cor- rected . To pronounce with a proper degree of slow- ness , and with full and clear articulation ...
Page xi
... common discourse . Many persons err in this respect . When they read to others , and with solemnity , they pronounce the syl- lables in a different manner from what they do at oth- er times . They dwell upon them , and protract them ...
... common discourse . Many persons err in this respect . When they read to others , and with solemnity , they pronounce the syl- lables in a different manner from what they do at oth- er times . They dwell upon them , and protract them ...
Page xiii
... common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give variety to the modulation . * Notwithstanding this diversity By modulation is meant ...
... common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give variety to the modulation . * Notwithstanding this diversity By modulation is meant ...
Page xiv
... to which it does not common . ly belong . .. In order to acquire the proper management of the emphasis , the great rule to be given is , that the read- er study to attain a just conception of the force xiv . Introduction .
... to which it does not common . ly belong . .. In order to acquire the proper management of the emphasis , the great rule to be given is , that the read- er study to attain a just conception of the force xiv . Introduction .
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