The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very 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 ElocutionW. Borrowdale, 1808 - 412 páginas |
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... appear belt adapted to form a correct and graceful speaker . RULE I. Let your Articulation be diftin & t and deliberate . A GOOD Articulation confifts in giving a clear and full utterance to the several simple and complex founds . The ...
... appear belt adapted to form a correct and graceful speaker . RULE I. Let your Articulation be diftin & t and deliberate . A GOOD Articulation confifts in giving a clear and full utterance to the several simple and complex founds . The ...
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... appear neither to understand or feel what they say themselves , nor to have any defire that it fhould be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault : a fpeaker without energy , is a lifeless statue , In order to ...
... appear neither to understand or feel what they say themselves , nor to have any defire that it fhould be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault : a fpeaker without energy , is a lifeless statue , In order to ...
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... appear intelligible and perfpicuous But for 35 this purpose it is neceffary , that the reader fhould be per- fectly acquainted with the exact conftruction and full meaning of every fentence which he recites . Without this it is ...
... appear intelligible and perfpicuous But for 35 this purpose it is neceffary , that the reader fhould be per- fectly acquainted with the exact conftruction and full meaning of every fentence which he recites . Without this it is ...
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... appear confufed and obfcure , and often be mif- understood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly lott . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the points used ...
... appear confufed and obfcure , and often be mif- understood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly lott . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the points used ...
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... appears before the public , to confider the business he has to per- form in any other light , than as a trial of skill , and a difplay of oratory . Hence it is that the character of an orator has of late often been treated with ridicule ...
... appears before the public , to confider the business he has to per- form in any other light , than as a trial of skill , and a difplay of oratory . Hence it is that the character of an orator has of late often been treated with ridicule ...
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