The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... idea of emphasis , it will readily appear of how much consequence it is to readers and speakers not to be mistaken in it ; the necessity of distinguishing the emphatical words from the rest , has made writers on this subject extremely ...
... idea of emphasis , it will readily appear of how much consequence it is to readers and speakers not to be mistaken in it ; the necessity of distinguishing the emphatical words from the rest , has made writers on this subject extremely ...
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... ideas . And if he enter into the spirit of his author's sentiments , as well as into the meaning of his words , he will not fail to deliver the words in properly varied notes , unless the natural inflexions of his voice be vitiated or ...
... ideas . And if he enter into the spirit of his author's sentiments , as well as into the meaning of his words , he will not fail to deliver the words in properly varied notes , unless the natural inflexions of his voice be vitiated or ...
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... Ideas and Emotions . By ideas , I mean all thoughts which rise and pass in succession in the mind : by emotions , all exertions of the mind , which arise from the operation of the passions . Words are the signs of the one , tones of ...
... Ideas and Emotions . By ideas , I mean all thoughts which rise and pass in succession in the mind : by emotions , all exertions of the mind , which arise from the operation of the passions . Words are the signs of the one , tones of ...
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... ideas which the authors never dreamed of , and by changing the words , change the sense , and spoil the whole . At that instant Democritus passed , laughing so immoderately that I was obliged to inquire the cause , surprised to see so ...
... ideas which the authors never dreamed of , and by changing the words , change the sense , and spoil the whole . At that instant Democritus passed , laughing so immoderately that I was obliged to inquire the cause , surprised to see so ...
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... ideas of its having been plan- ned , and some writers of bad disposition , aided by the quickness of their genius , interpret malignantly the proceedings of those who go- vern , and as vice and virtue border on each other , they call ...
... ideas of its having been plan- ned , and some writers of bad disposition , aided by the quickness of their genius , interpret malignantly the proceedings of those who go- vern , and as vice and virtue border on each other , they call ...
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