Self-culture in Reading, Speaking, and Conversation: Designed for the Use of Schools, Colleges, and Home InstructionA. S. Barnes & Company, 1856 - 383 pages |
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... elocution , as a study , of its repulsive , artificial character , and to make it plain , easy , and attractive . Its principles are embodied and illustrated in a course of reading lessons : and to render these more impressive and ...
... elocution , as a study , of its repulsive , artificial character , and to make it plain , easy , and attractive . Its principles are embodied and illustrated in a course of reading lessons : and to render these more impressive and ...
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... Elocution - Reading - Punctuation , III . Pauses unnoted : " divisions , " bars , accent , quantity , IV . Slides - Curves - Circumflexes , V. Paragraphs , as examples to illustrate punctuation , VI . Emphasis and cadence , VII ...
... Elocution - Reading - Punctuation , III . Pauses unnoted : " divisions , " bars , accent , quantity , IV . Slides - Curves - Circumflexes , V. Paragraphs , as examples to illustrate punctuation , VI . Emphasis and cadence , VII ...
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... elocution , we find so many bad readers and speakers , even among those who are esteemed well educated ? No doubt , in the majority of cases , the cause can be traced to a defective mode of early instruc- tion ; or perhaps to the ...
... elocution , we find so many bad readers and speakers , even among those who are esteemed well educated ? No doubt , in the majority of cases , the cause can be traced to a defective mode of early instruc- tion ; or perhaps to the ...
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... elocution . Elocution is simply an appropriate utterance . As a science , its office is to teach an easy , correct , and expres- sive manner of speaking ; whether in conversation , in speaking in public , or in reading aloud to others ...
... elocution . Elocution is simply an appropriate utterance . As a science , its office is to teach an easy , correct , and expres- sive manner of speaking ; whether in conversation , in speaking in public , or in reading aloud to others ...
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... elocution : to read that of an inferior order , he must have still greater powers , that he may do justice to himself : for it is one of the severest trials of talent and taste to read verse which is prosaic , monotonous and tame , so ...
... elocution : to read that of an inferior order , he must have still greater powers , that he may do justice to himself : for it is one of the severest trials of talent and taste to read verse which is prosaic , monotonous and tame , so ...
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