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Page 41
... public speaking and theatrical entertainments of the ancients . Our modern pronunciation would have seemed to them a lifeless monotony . The declamation of their orators and the pronunciation of their actors upon the stage approached to ...
... public speaking and theatrical entertainments of the ancients . Our modern pronunciation would have seemed to them a lifeless monotony . The declamation of their orators and the pronunciation of their actors upon the stage approached to ...
Page 42
... public speak- ing of any kind must in every country bear some proportion to the manner which is used in conversa- tion ; and such public entertainments could never be relished by a nation whose tones and gestures in discourse were as ...
... public speak- ing of any kind must in every country bear some proportion to the manner which is used in conversa- tion ; and such public entertainments could never be relished by a nation whose tones and gestures in discourse were as ...
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... speak their own language with propriety . Let the matter of an author be ever so good and useful , his compositions will always suffer in the public esteem , if his expression be deficient in purity or propriety . At the same time , the ...
... speak their own language with propriety . Let the matter of an author be ever so good and useful , his compositions will always suffer in the public esteem , if his expression be deficient in purity or propriety . At the same time , the ...
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... speak in public . To attempt a poetical style , when it should be our business only to reason , is in the highest degree awkward and absurd . To speak with elaborate pomp of words before those who can- not comprehend them , is equally ...
... speak in public . To attempt a poetical style , when it should be our business only to reason , is in the highest degree awkward and absurd . To speak with elaborate pomp of words before those who can- not comprehend them , is equally ...
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... public speaking an object of importance , were introduced . Before the rise of the Grecian republics , we per- ceive no remarkable appearance of eloquence , as the art of persuasion ; and these gave it such a field as it never had ...
... public speaking an object of importance , were introduced . Before the rise of the Grecian republics , we per- ceive no remarkable appearance of eloquence , as the art of persuasion ; and these gave it such a field as it never had ...
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