Progressive Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: Particularly Designed to Familiarize the Younger Classes of Readers with the Pauses and Other Marks in General Use, and to Introduce Them to the Practice of Modulation and Inflection of the Voice |
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| Title | Progressive Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: Particularly Designed to Familiarize the Younger Classes of Readers with the Pauses and Other Marks in General Use, and to Introduce Them to the Practice of Modulation and Inflection of the Voice |
| Author | Richard Green Parker |
| Publisher | Crocker and Brewster, 1835 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 17 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 144 pages |
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