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... Writers on the Arts of Speaking and Writing , there are few or none who have treated profeffedly on that of Reading . We have , indeed , many Books which treat curforily of the Pronunciation of par- ticular Languages : But the ...
... Writers on the Arts of Speaking and Writing , there are few or none who have treated profeffedly on that of Reading . We have , indeed , many Books which treat curforily of the Pronunciation of par- ticular Languages : But the ...
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... Writers on the Art of Speaking are , for the most Part , so far from confining it to the mere Exercise of the Faculty of Speech , that they extend it fo far as to include the Arts of corporeal Gesture and intellectual Defign or Compo ...
... Writers on the Art of Speaking are , for the most Part , so far from confining it to the mere Exercise of the Faculty of Speech , that they extend it fo far as to include the Arts of corporeal Gesture and intellectual Defign or Compo ...
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... Writer : And , indeed , it is al- lowed , thefe two Characters must enter into that of a compleat Orator . A Reader , however , need neither be a Writer nor an Actor , much lefs a finished Orator . By the Art of Reading , to which this ...
... Writer : And , indeed , it is al- lowed , thefe two Characters must enter into that of a compleat Orator . A Reader , however , need neither be a Writer nor an Actor , much lefs a finished Orator . By the Art of Reading , to which this ...
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... Writer . To this End , it is evidently neceffary that the Reader should himself understand what he reads , before he can poffibly re- fhew the Ufe and Means of Reading intelligibly than Speaking gracefully . Perfons may read with ...
... Writer . To this End , it is evidently neceffary that the Reader should himself understand what he reads , before he can poffibly re- fhew the Ufe and Means of Reading intelligibly than Speaking gracefully . Perfons may read with ...
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... Writer than by vocal Utterance or Pro- nunciation , fo these Means are the leaft equivocal of all others , and the fureft Cri terion of a clear Understanding in the one , and Preciseness of Expreffion in the other : For it is here to be ...
... Writer than by vocal Utterance or Pro- nunciation , fo these Means are the leaft equivocal of all others , and the fureft Cri terion of a clear Understanding in the one , and Preciseness of Expreffion in the other : For it is here to be ...
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