Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons, Particularly Designed to Familiarize Readers with the Pauses and Other Marks in General Use, and Lead Them to the Practice of Modulation and Inflection of the Voice |
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... eyes in capital letters , and in the running titles of the books before them every day . It is often the case , that the teacher also , taking for granted that his pupils are familiar with the meaning of words so often presented to their ...
... eyes in capital letters , and in the running titles of the books before them every day . It is often the case , that the teacher also , taking for granted that his pupils are familiar with the meaning of words so often presented to their ...
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... eye on some of the most distant persons in the company , and to con- sider ourselves as reading to them . We naturally and mechanically utter our words with such a degree of strength as to make ourselves be heard by the person whom we ...
... eye on some of the most distant persons in the company , and to con- sider ourselves as reading to them . We naturally and mechanically utter our words with such a degree of strength as to make ourselves be heard by the person whom we ...
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... eye , not ideas to the understanding . " " Some sentences are so full and comprehensive , that almost every word is emphatical : as , ' Ye hills and dales , ye rivers , woods , and plains ! ' or , as that pathetic expostulation in the ...
... eye , not ideas to the understanding . " " Some sentences are so full and comprehensive , that almost every word is emphatical : as , ' Ye hills and dales , ye rivers , woods , and plains ! ' or , as that pathetic expostulation in the ...
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... eye is sweetly delayed on every object to how widely and painted which it turns . It is grateful to perceive yet chastely , nature hath mixed her colors her robe . 150. Winter compensates for the want of attractions by fireside delights ...
... eye is sweetly delayed on every object to how widely and painted which it turns . It is grateful to perceive yet chastely , nature hath mixed her colors her robe . 150. Winter compensates for the want of attractions by fireside delights ...
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... eye the blue vault , and bless the useful light . 172. When the battle was ended , the stranger disappeared ; and no person knew whence he had come , nor whither he had gone . 173. The relief was so timely , so sudden , so unexpected ...
... eye the blue vault , and bless the useful light . 172. When the battle was ended , the stranger disappeared ; and no person knew whence he had come , nor whither he had gone . 173. The relief was so timely , so sudden , so unexpected ...
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