Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons, Particularly Designed to Familiarize Readers with the Pauses and Other Marks in General Use, and Lead Them to the Practice of Modulation and Inflection of the VoiceA.S. Barnes & Company, 1855 - 432 pages |
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... manner , when performing their portioned tasks in their reading- books at school . This arises from no want of excellent selections for exer- cises in Reading . But a wide distinction is to be drawn between a lesson and an exercise . We ...
... manner , when performing their portioned tasks in their reading- books at school . This arises from no want of excellent selections for exer- cises in Reading . But a wide distinction is to be drawn between a lesson and an exercise . We ...
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... manner it will appear , from an inspection of the latter part of the ninth lesson , that it is not unfrequently the case that the sense will allow no pause whatever to be made in cases where , if the marks alone were observed , it would ...
... manner it will appear , from an inspection of the latter part of the ninth lesson , that it is not unfrequently the case that the sense will allow no pause whatever to be made in cases where , if the marks alone were observed , it would ...
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... manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every such performance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common ; and requires the more ...
... manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every such performance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common ; and requires the more ...
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... manner from what they do at other times . They dwell upon them and protract them ; they multiply accents on the same word , from a mistaken notion , that it gives gravity and importance to their subject , and adds to the energy of their ...
... manner from what they do at other times . They dwell upon them and protract them ; they multiply accents on the same word , from a mistaken notion , that it gives gravity and importance to their subject , and adds to the energy of their ...
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... manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , ' Of man's first disobedience , ' & c . " Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have been an unheard - of and dreadful punishment ...
... manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , ' Of man's first disobedience , ' & c . " Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have been an unheard - of and dreadful punishment ...
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