The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which are Prefixed Two Essays |
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... gives the word of com- mand ; the watchman , when he announces the hour of the night ; the sovereign , when he ... give you such a command of voice , as is scarcely to be ac- quired by any other method . Having repeated this experi ...
... gives the word of com- mand ; the watchman , when he announces the hour of the night ; the sovereign , when he ... give you such a command of voice , as is scarcely to be ac- quired by any other method . Having repeated this experi ...
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... give some one syllable a more forcible utterance than the rest . This variety of sound , which is called Accent , serves to distinguish from each other the words of which a sentence is composed : without it , the ear would perceive ...
... give some one syllable a more forcible utterance than the rest . This variety of sound , which is called Accent , serves to distinguish from each other the words of which a sentence is composed : without it , the ear would perceive ...
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... give those inflec- tions and variations to the voice , which Nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous study , more perhaps than from any other cause , that we so often hear persons read with an improper emphasis , or with ...
... give those inflec- tions and variations to the voice , which Nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous study , more perhaps than from any other cause , that we so often hear persons read with an improper emphasis , or with ...
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... give the hearer a distinct perception of the construction and meaning of each sentence , and a clear understanding of the whole . An uninterrupted rapidity of utterance is one of the worst faults in elocution . A speaker , who has this ...
... give the hearer a distinct perception of the construction and meaning of each sentence , and a clear understanding of the whole . An uninterrupted rapidity of utterance is one of the worst faults in elocution . A speaker , who has this ...
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... give the hearer an expectation of something farther , to complete the sense ; the third pause denotes , that the sense is completed . * Book ii , Chap . 18 . + Mr. Garrick's power of suspending the voice is well described by Sterne ...
... give the hearer an expectation of something farther , to complete the sense ; the third pause denotes , that the sense is completed . * Book ii , Chap . 18 . + Mr. Garrick's power of suspending the voice is well described by Sterne ...
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