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 Elocution. By William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ... |
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Page v
... fome confequence , that what a man has hourly occafion to do , fhould be done well . Every private company , and almost every public affembly affords opportunities of remarking the difference between a juft and graceful , and a a 3 ...
... fome confequence , that what a man has hourly occafion to do , fhould be done well . Every private company , and almost every public affembly affords opportunities of remarking the difference between a juft and graceful , and a a 3 ...
Page vi
... fome accurate obfervers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky fpecimens of modern eloquence , have concluded that this is the only law which ought to be prescribed ; that all artificial rules are useless ; and that good fenfe , and a ...
... fome accurate obfervers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky fpecimens of modern eloquence , have concluded that this is the only law which ought to be prescribed ; that all artificial rules are useless ; and that good fenfe , and a ...
Page viii
... fome defect in the organs of fpeech , are generally the confequence of inatten- tion or bad example . Many of these respect the founding of the confonants . Some cannot pro- nounce the letter l , and others the fimple founds r , s , th ...
... fome defect in the organs of fpeech , are generally the confequence of inatten- tion or bad example . Many of these respect the founding of the confonants . Some cannot pro- nounce the letter l , and others the fimple founds r , s , th ...
Page xviii
... fome incidental circumftance . The following short sentence may have three different meanings , according to the different place of the Emphafis : Do you intend to go to London this fummer ? In order to acquire a habit of speaking with ...
... fome incidental circumftance . The following short sentence may have three different meanings , according to the different place of the Emphafis : Do you intend to go to London this fummer ? In order to acquire a habit of speaking with ...
Page xxiv
... fome kind of feeling ufually accompanies our words , and this , whatever it be , hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little studied in public fpeaking , that we seem almost to have forgotten the language ...
... fome kind of feeling ufually accompanies our words , and this , whatever it be , hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little studied in public fpeaking , that we seem almost to have forgotten the language ...
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