A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected, and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out ... To which are Added, Outlines of Composition, Or, Plain Rules for Writing Orations, and Speaking Them in Public ...J. Johnson ... J. Walker ... G. Wilkie, and J. Robinson ... and G. Robinson ... and T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 - 373 pages |
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... racter in the following manner , with a design of recommending him to the favour of the judges : I might say many things of his liberality , kindness to his domestics , his command in the army , and moderation during his office in the ...
... racter in the following manner , with a design of recommending him to the favour of the judges : I might say many things of his liberality , kindness to his domestics , his command in the army , and moderation during his office in the ...
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... racter of style , a certain degree of negligence is not inconsistent , nor even ungraceful ; for too accurate an attention to words is foreign to it . Simplicity of style possesses this considerable ad- vantage , that , like simplicity ...
... racter of style , a certain degree of negligence is not inconsistent , nor even ungraceful ; for too accurate an attention to words is foreign to it . Simplicity of style possesses this considerable ad- vantage , that , like simplicity ...
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... racter for cultivating the arts both of peace and war , their princes , and other eminent men they have produced . Thus Pacatus has given us a very elegant description of Spain , in his pane- gyric upon the emperor Theodosius , who was ...
... racter for cultivating the arts both of peace and war , their princes , and other eminent men they have produced . Thus Pacatus has given us a very elegant description of Spain , in his pane- gyric upon the emperor Theodosius , who was ...
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... racter , and great services to the public while living . Love excites us to esteem another for some excellency , and to do him all the good in our power . It is distinguished from friendship , which is mutual ; and therefore love may ...
... racter , and great services to the public while living . Love excites us to esteem another for some excellency , and to do him all the good in our power . It is distinguished from friendship , which is mutual ; and therefore love may ...
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accent agreeable arguments arises Asyndeton attention beauty beginning blank verse Cæsar Cæsura called character Cicero Clodius comma common composition considered couplet Demosthenes depends discourse distinct distinguished Elocution emphasis emphatic words endeavour example express falling inflexion figure flexion following sentence force former give higher tone honour Ibid idea inflexion of voice instance interrogative interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind language latter likewise long pause lower tone manner mark Mark Antony meaning Milo mind monotone nature necessary neral nounced nunciation object observed orator ornament particular passage passion person phatic Polysyndeton Pompey principal pronounced pronunciation proper propriety prose punctuation question Quintilian racter reader reading reason requires Rhetoric rhyme riety rising inflexion Roman rule says slide sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator style syllable tence thing thou thought tion tone of voice unaccented variety verb verse virtue vowels whole writer