The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse from the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; Improve Their Language and Sentiments and to Inculate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue, with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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... tones and variations of voice , but contain sentences and members of sentences , which are diversified , proportioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read ...
... tones and variations of voice , but contain sentences and members of sentences , which are diversified , proportioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read ...
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... tones and variations of voice , but contain sentences and members of sentences , which are diversified , proportioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read ...
... tones and variations of voice , but contain sentences and members of sentences , which are diversified , proportioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read ...
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... tones , may be discovered and put in prac tice , is not possible . After all the directions that can be offered on these points , much will remain to be taught by the living instructer : much will be attaina ble by no other means , than ...
... tones , may be discovered and put in prac tice , is not possible . After all the directions that can be offered on these points , much will remain to be taught by the living instructer : much will be attaina ble by no other means , than ...
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... tone of voice , as well as by a particular stress . On the right management of the emphasis depends the life of pronunciation . If no emphasis be placed on any words , not only is dis course rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning ...
... tone of voice , as well as by a particular stress . On the right management of the emphasis depends the life of pronunciation . If no emphasis be placed on any words , not only is dis course rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning ...
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... tones of emotion and passion . The young reader should be careful to rendez his modulation correct and easy ; and , for this purpose , uld form it upon the model of the most judicious and accurate speakers . parts of this position : " I ...
... tones of emotion and passion . The young reader should be careful to rendez his modulation correct and easy ; and , for this purpose , uld form it upon the model of the most judicious and accurate speakers . parts of this position : " I ...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected From the Best ... Lindley Murray No preview available - 2016 |
The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected From the Best ... Lindley Murray No preview available - 2017 |
The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, From the Best Writers ... Lindley 1745-1826 1n Murray No preview available - 2021 |
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