An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private LearnersPratt, Woodford & Company, 1845 - 357 páginas |
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... nature , elevates man to his proper rank in the scale of being , and qualifies him to fulfil , with honour and usefulness , his various offices in life . But school - books , more especially , as they 1 * PREFACE . 5.
... nature , elevates man to his proper rank in the scale of being , and qualifies him to fulfil , with honour and usefulness , his various offices in life . But school - books , more especially , as they 1 * PREFACE . 5.
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... nature , as we are in expressing the senti- ments of others . By a misconception of the spirit and design of the author , readers and speakers often mar , and sometimes totally pervert , his meaning . Hence the importance of atten- tion ...
... nature , as we are in expressing the senti- ments of others . By a misconception of the spirit and design of the author , readers and speakers often mar , and sometimes totally pervert , his meaning . Hence the importance of atten- tion ...
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... nature , and character , and application of the principles of the science : but , at the same time , let the am- bitious student bear in mind , that , as by strict attention to principles and rules , and by long practice , with native ...
... nature , and character , and application of the principles of the science : but , at the same time , let the am- bitious student bear in mind , that , as by strict attention to principles and rules , and by long practice , with native ...
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... nature is put to the blush ; and the whole group of proprieties is sent jibbering down to chaos . To see a piece of elegant composition tattered and torn , and mutilated and mangled , by such a reader , is severer torture than to listen ...
... nature is put to the blush ; and the whole group of proprieties is sent jibbering down to chaos . To see a piece of elegant composition tattered and torn , and mutilated and mangled , by such a reader , is severer torture than to listen ...
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... nature in directing the operations of the vocal powers in the production of speech , in no one thing has she displayed greater wisdom than in that which relates to the simple elements called by Dr. Rush , the Radical and Vanishing ...
... nature in directing the operations of the vocal powers in the production of speech , in no one thing has she displayed greater wisdom than in that which relates to the simple elements called by Dr. Rush , the Radical and Vanishing ...
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