A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking; Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples ...A. H. Maltby, 1830 - 344 pages |
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... naturally led to a friendly intercourse between us : for what is more pow- erful , when good moral qualities are not deficient , to at- tract and bind one man to another , than fellowship in elevating intellectual pursuits . The method ...
... naturally led to a friendly intercourse between us : for what is more pow- erful , when good moral qualities are not deficient , to at- tract and bind one man to another , than fellowship in elevating intellectual pursuits . The method ...
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... naturally invited to participate in their administra- tion to say nothing of the frequency of public meetings for municipal or beneficent purposes . Under these circum- stances , there are but few among the well informed part of the ...
... naturally invited to participate in their administra- tion to say nothing of the frequency of public meetings for municipal or beneficent purposes . Under these circum- stances , there are but few among the well informed part of the ...
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... natural symbol of great energy of feeling . But independent of emphasis , or the indication of any particular state of the feelings , if words are not marked by a due proportion of percussive or explosive stress , they will not be ...
... natural symbol of great energy of feeling . But independent of emphasis , or the indication of any particular state of the feelings , if words are not marked by a due proportion of percussive or explosive stress , they will not be ...
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... natural capacities . The student has not obtained that use of his voice which it is the object of the table to teach him , until every sound it contains can be uttered with the suddenness of the report of fire - arms , without any ...
... natural capacities . The student has not obtained that use of his voice which it is the object of the table to teach him , until every sound it contains can be uttered with the suddenness of the report of fire - arms , without any ...
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... . Table of those Vowel Sounds which can be protracted in utterance without changing their natural expression . 1234 a as in a - we . a a - ge . O a - rm . o - ld . 10 667896 5 ou as in ou - r . 32 GRAMMAR OF ELOCUTION .
... . Table of those Vowel Sounds which can be protracted in utterance without changing their natural expression . 1234 a as in a - we . a a - ge . O a - rm . o - ld . 10 667896 5 ou as in ou - r . 32 GRAMMAR OF ELOCUTION .
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accented agreeable articulation aspiration Brutus cadence Cæsar called ceive cern concrete consonants degree delivery described discourse discrete downward slide earth effect elementary sounds Elocution Elocutionist emphasis emphatic employed equal wave example exercise expression eyes falling ditone falling slide fifth force forcible give Harfleur hast hath heard heart heaven high note Human Voice intervals light long quantity Lord loud marked marked radical measure median stress ments monotony natural nerally o'er octave pauses percussion persons plaintive practice pronounced pronunciation prosody public speaking quire racter radical pitch radical stress reading rise and fall rising slide semitone sentence short simple melody soul speak speaker speech student sylla syllables TABLE OF CONSONANT TABLE OF VOWEL thee thine thing third thou art thought tion tone tremor unto utterance vanish vocal voice vowel elements vowel sounds words Δ Δ Δ ΙΔ
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