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 x
... regard to the speed of pronouncing . Precipitancy of speech confounds all articulation , and all meaning . It is scarcely necessary to observe , that there may be also an extreme on the opposite side . It is obvious that a lifeless ...
... regard to the speed of pronouncing . Precipitancy of speech confounds all articulation , and all meaning . It is scarcely necessary to observe , that there may be also an extreme on the opposite side . It is obvious that a lifeless ...
Page xiv
... regard to meaning . Emphasis also , in particular cases , al- ters the seat of accent . This is demonstrable from the following examples : " He shall increase , but I shall decrease . " There is a difference between giv- ing and ...
... regard to meaning . Emphasis also , in particular cases , al- ters the seat of accent . This is demonstrable from the following examples : " He shall increase , but I shall decrease . " There is a difference between giv- ing and ...
Page xv
... regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowd- ing all the pages of a book with Italic characters , which , as to the effect , is just the same as to use no such dis- tinctions at all . SECTION VI ...
... regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowd- ing all the pages of a book with Italic characters , which , as to the effect , is just the same as to use no such dis- tinctions at all . SECTION VI ...
Page xvi
... regard to the rest of the animal world ; all of which express their various feelings , by various tones . Ours , indeed , from the superior rank that we hold , are in a high degree more comprehen- sive ; as there is not an act of the ...
... regard to the rest of the animal world ; all of which express their various feelings , by various tones . Ours , indeed , from the superior rank that we hold , are in a high degree more comprehen- sive ; as there is not an act of the ...
Page xix
... regard to the closing pause ; it admits of both . The falling inflec- tion generally accompanies it ; but it is not unfrequently con- * The rising inflection is denoted by the acute ; the falling , by the grave accent . nected with the ...
... regard to the closing pause ; it admits of both . The falling inflec- tion generally accompanies it ; but it is not unfrequently con- * The rising inflection is denoted by the acute ; the falling , by the grave accent . nected with the ...
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