An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private LearnersPratt, Woodford & Company, 1845 - 357 pages |
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... speak in terms of honest praise . His work on Elocution raises him still higher in our esti mation , for we find it ( and we have perused it attentively , and with the utmost pleasure ) one highly calculated to mend the manners , and ...
... speak in terms of honest praise . His work on Elocution raises him still higher in our esti mation , for we find it ( and we have perused it attentively , and with the utmost pleasure ) one highly calculated to mend the manners , and ...
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... speaking , by which all the necessary tones , pauses , emphases , modulations , and inflections , may be discovered and put in practice . To accomplish this , much depends on the judgment and natural taste of the learner ; and much more ...
... speaking , by which all the necessary tones , pauses , emphases , modulations , and inflections , may be discovered and put in practice . To accomplish this , much depends on the judgment and natural taste of the learner ; and much more ...
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... speak the language , is , by teaching him those ele- ments in which he fails , separately , as single and detached things , as well as to cause him to pronounce them in their com bined state . Why does the foreigner or the half - taught ...
... speak the language , is , by teaching him those ele- ments in which he fails , separately , as single and detached things , as well as to cause him to pronounce them in their com bined state . Why does the foreigner or the half - taught ...
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... speak our language , totally pervert its sound in terminations like these ; often pronouncing it like short u : thus differunt , monumunt , complimunt , govern- munt , continunt , ardunt , excellunt , transhunt , 34 ESSAY ON ELOCUTION .
... speak our language , totally pervert its sound in terminations like these ; often pronouncing it like short u : thus differunt , monumunt , complimunt , govern- munt , continunt , ardunt , excellunt , transhunt , 34 ESSAY ON ELOCUTION .
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... speak er , this is a point of paramount importance . Whilst a dull uni- formity of force and elevation would amount to unendurable monotony , a succession of depressions that produce indistinct- ness of articulation , is worse than the ...
... speak er , this is a point of paramount importance . Whilst a dull uni- formity of force and elevation would amount to unendurable monotony , a succession of depressions that produce indistinct- ness of articulation , is worse than the ...
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