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OP READING AND ORATORY closes the series with an exhibition of the whole theory and art of Elocution exclusive of gesture . It contains , besides the classification of sen . tences already referreu iw , but here presented with fuller ...
OP READING AND ORATORY closes the series with an exhibition of the whole theory and art of Elocution exclusive of gesture . It contains , besides the classification of sen . tences already referreu iw , but here presented with fuller ...
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... that it comprises , especially poetry of the higher grade , such as compilers are usually most anxious to insert in ! nese books , the most difficult reading to be found in the whole circle of English literature .
... that it comprises , especially poetry of the higher grade , such as compilers are usually most anxious to insert in ! nese books , the most difficult reading to be found in the whole circle of English literature .
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The bend is a slight turn of the voice upward on the last word , or syllable of a word ; while the upward slide is a gradual ascent of the voice through a whole sentence . E. g . If you deliver the first clause of the first example ...
The bend is a slight turn of the voice upward on the last word , or syllable of a word ; while the upward slide is a gradual ascent of the voice through a whole sentence . E. g . If you deliver the first clause of the first example ...
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Let each example be delivered , first , in little more than a whisper , then a little louder ; that is , with more and more force , until the pupil shall have exerted the whole power of his voice . Having done this , let him reverse the ...
Let each example be delivered , first , in little more than a whisper , then a little louder ; that is , with more and more force , until the pupil shall have exerted the whole power of his voice . Having done this , let him reverse the ...
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But when the pipe is gone , I shall try to forget the whole business , and say to myself , “ my poor old captain is sick , and does not mean what he said ' . " Capt . Jack , come here . 6 ( Takes his hand . ) ...
But when the pipe is gone , I shall try to forget the whole business , and say to myself , “ my poor old captain is sick , and does not mean what he said ' . " Capt . Jack , come here . 6 ( Takes his hand . ) ...
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Page 157 - And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety that the Lord hath sent his angel and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
Page 108 - I would not live alway ; no, welcome the tomb ! Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom ; There, sweet be my rest, till He bid me arise To hail Him in triumph descending the skies.
Page 169 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb...
Page 174 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 85 - The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation : he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation ; my father's God, and I will exalt him. 3 The LORD is a man of war : the LORD is his name.
Page 169 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him ; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Page 168 - If discord and disunion shall wound it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness — if uneasiness, under salutary and necessary restraint shall succeed to separate it from that union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last,...
Page 11 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 104 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 118 - Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.