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 |
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Page iii
... juft and graceful Elocution , I feel a pecu- liar propriety in addreffing it to you , as a public acknowledgment of the fteady fup- port which you have given to this . Inftituti- on , and the important fervices which you have rendered ...
... juft and graceful Elocution , I feel a pecu- liar propriety in addreffing it to you , as a public acknowledgment of the fteady fup- port which you have given to this . Inftituti- on , and the important fervices which you have rendered ...
Page v
... done well . Every private company , and almoft every public affembly affords opportunities of remarking the difference between a juft and graceful , and a a 3 faulty faulty and unnatural elocution ; and there are few perfons.
... done well . Every private company , and almoft every public affembly affords opportunities of remarking the difference between a juft and graceful , and a a 3 faulty faulty and unnatural elocution ; and there are few perfons.
Page vi
... juft elocution . And fome accurate obfervers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky fpeciinens of modern eloquence , have concluded that this is the only law which ought to be prefcribed ; that all artificial rules are ufelefs ; and ...
... juft elocution . And fome accurate obfervers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky fpeciinens of modern eloquence , have concluded that this is the only law which ought to be prefcribed ; that all artificial rules are ufelefs ; and ...
Page ix
... juft fpeaking would require . Almost all perfons , who have not studied the art of fpeaking , have a habit of uttering their words . fo rapidly , that this latter exercise ought general- ly to be made ufe of for a confiderable time at ...
... juft fpeaking would require . Almost all perfons , who have not studied the art of fpeaking , have a habit of uttering their words . fo rapidly , that this latter exercise ought general- ly to be made ufe of for a confiderable time at ...
Page xvii
... juft and forcible pronunciation ; and it can only be the effect of close attention and long practice , to be able , with a mere glance of the eye , to read any piece with good emphafs and good difcretion . IT is another office of ...
... juft and forcible pronunciation ; and it can only be the effect of close attention and long practice , to be able , with a mere glance of the eye , to read any piece with good emphafs and good difcretion . IT is another office of ...
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