The Art of Elocution, Or, Logical and Musical Reading and Declamation: With an Appendix, Containing a Copious Practice in Oratorical, Poetical, and Dramatic Reading and Recitation ; the Whole Forming a Complete Speaker, Well Adapted to Private Pupils, Classes, and the Use of Schools |
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... grace of language . How many a good story is marred in the telling : how many a good sermon is lost in the preaching : how many a good speech , excellent in matter , argument , arrangement , language , falls listless on the ear , from ...
... grace of language . How many a good story is marred in the telling : how many a good sermon is lost in the preaching : how many a good speech , excellent in matter , argument , arrangement , language , falls listless on the ear , from ...
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... grace of delivery , as to the force of argument or the eloquence of diction . And how is this power and grace of delivery to be ac- quired ? -for acquired it must be - it is born with no man : it is indeed to this part of oratory that ...
... grace of delivery , as to the force of argument or the eloquence of diction . And how is this power and grace of delivery to be ac- quired ? -for acquired it must be - it is born with no man : it is indeed to this part of oratory that ...
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... grace to his own position . ) " Now , by common sense is meant , I apprehend , ( when the term is used with any distinct meaning , ) an exercise of the judgment unaided by any art or system of rules ; such an exercise as we must ...
... grace to his own position . ) " Now , by common sense is meant , I apprehend , ( when the term is used with any distinct meaning , ) an exercise of the judgment unaided by any art or system of rules ; such an exercise as we must ...
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... Grace of manners is so essential to princes that , whenever it is neglected , their virtues lose a great degree of lustre . 2. The rule itself is an example in point ; at the words , ' mark it ' and ' follow ' ; and the following ...
... Grace of manners is so essential to princes that , whenever it is neglected , their virtues lose a great degree of lustre . 2. The rule itself is an example in point ; at the words , ' mark it ' and ' follow ' ; and the following ...
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... grace , this propriety of manners to character , is so essential to princes in particular , that , whenever it is neglected , their virtues lose a great degree of lustre , and their defects acquire much aggravation . Nay , more ; by neg ...
... grace , this propriety of manners to character , is so essential to princes in particular , that , whenever it is neglected , their virtues lose a great degree of lustre , and their defects acquire much aggravation . Nay , more ; by neg ...
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