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... thought it pro- per to make the following preparatory suggestions . 1. In a large number of those who are to be taught reading and speaking , the first difficulty to be encountered arises from bad habits , previously contracted . The ...
... thought it pro- per to make the following preparatory suggestions . 1. In a large number of those who are to be taught reading and speaking , the first difficulty to be encountered arises from bad habits , previously contracted . The ...
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... thoughts to others , by oral language . The importance of this , in professions where it is the chief in- strument by which one mind acts on others , is so obvious as to have given currency to the maxim , that an indiffer- ent ...
... thoughts to others , by oral language . The importance of this , in professions where it is the chief in- strument by which one mind acts on others , is so obvious as to have given currency to the maxim , that an indiffer- ent ...
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... thoughts of an author , but express- es them with the force , variety , and beauty , which feel- ing demands . And just here it is that the most stubborn difficulty in elocution meets us ; -a difficulty arising from the genius of ...
... thoughts of an author , but express- es them with the force , variety , and beauty , which feel- ing demands . And just here it is that the most stubborn difficulty in elocution meets us ; -a difficulty arising from the genius of ...
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... thought necessary . The intellectual and moral qualities indispensable to form an orator , are brought into view in ... thoughts or those of others . Pronunciation , which anciently signified the whole of delivery , is now equivalent to ...
... thought necessary . The intellectual and moral qualities indispensable to form an orator , are brought into view in ... thoughts or those of others . Pronunciation , which anciently signified the whole of delivery , is now equivalent to ...
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... thought a mystery , that stammering persons find little difficulty in reading poetry , and none in singing ; whereas they stop at once in speaking , when they come to certain consonants . Any one who would practically understand this ...
... thought a mystery , that stammering persons find little difficulty in reading poetry , and none in singing ; whereas they stop at once in speaking , when they come to certain consonants . Any one who would practically understand this ...
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Absalom accent action Ahimaaz angels answer arms art thou behold blood Cæsar cæsura Christian Cicero circumflex common dark dead death delivery denote distinction dread earth elocution eloquence emotion emphasis emphatic emphatic series eternal Euboea example Exercises expressed falling inflection falling slide father fault feeling fire gesture give grave habits hand hath hear heard hearers heart heaven HYMN Iago imitation immortal Jesus Joab Julius Cæsar king language look Lord Macd manner mark meaning Michael Cassio mind mountain never o'er open vowels orator palms united passions pause phatic poetry praise pride 15 principles PSALM reader remarks rhetorical rising slide rule sense sentence sentiment servant sleep soul sound speak speaker spirit stress syllable taste Tell thee thine things thought throne thunder tion tones utterance voice words