A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking : Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples : Adapted to Colleges, Schools, and Private Instruction, the Whole Arranged in the Order in which it is Taught in Harvard University |
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OR ARE WE , who disregard them ? Were they deficient in matter , in power of argument , in the learning of their times , in the compass of their subject , in the arts of composition ? I confine the argument , for the moment ...
OR ARE WE , who disregard them ? Were they deficient in matter , in power of argument , in the learning of their times , in the compass of their subject , in the arts of composition ? I confine the argument , for the moment ...
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... more happy than yourselves , casts you into shade , and leaves you nothing but the consciousness of a mortifying ... you are obliged to forego them , because you have despised or neglected the art of communicating your sentiments in ...
... more happy than yourselves , casts you into shade , and leaves you nothing but the consciousness of a mortifying ... you are obliged to forego them , because you have despised or neglected the art of communicating your sentiments in ...
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I have availed myself of his treatise , and of his method of scoring , as far as I found them applicable to my purpose . Mr. Steele's work was published fifty years ago ; it is original , and somewhat abstruse : but of greater practical ...
I have availed myself of his treatise , and of his method of scoring , as far as I found them applicable to my purpose . Mr. Steele's work was published fifty years ago ; it is original , and somewhat abstruse : but of greater practical ...
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But to render them so , the following directions of a modern writer must be observed . " In just articulation , the words are not to be hurried over , nor precipitated syllable over syllable ; nor , as it were , melted together into a ...
But to render them so , the following directions of a modern writer must be observed . " In just articulation , the words are not to be hurried over , nor precipitated syllable over syllable ; nor , as it were , melted together into a ...
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After the three sounds of the word have thus been separately pronounced , let MAN be slowly uttered , so that each separate sound and the coalescence of them with each other , may be distinctly perceived at the same time .
After the three sounds of the word have thus been separately pronounced , let MAN be slowly uttered , so that each separate sound and the coalescence of them with each other , may be distinctly perceived at the same time .
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| Title | A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking : Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples : Adapted to Colleges, Schools, and Private Instruction, the Whole Arranged in the Order in which it is Taught in Harvard University |
| Author | Jonathan Barber |
| Publisher | A.H. Maltby, 1832 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 346 pages |
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