Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons : Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Volume 1T. Longman, B. Law&Son, J. Dodsley, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G.G.&J. Robinson, T. Cadell, W. Richardson, R. Baldwin, W. Goldsmith, F.&C. Rivington, R. Faulder, S. Hayes, Ogilvy&Speare, Vernor&Hood, W. Lowndes, C. Wynne, W. Bent, J. Scatcherd, G.&T. Wilkie, J. Walker, J. Evans, C.&G. Kearsley, and H. Murray, 1794 - 1119 pages |
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... proper to change the form and fize from a duodecimo to an octavo ; not only for the fake of giving it a more agreeable appearance , but alfo of adding to the quantity and variety of the contents . Some extracts have in- deed been ...
... proper to change the form and fize from a duodecimo to an octavo ; not only for the fake of giving it a more agreeable appearance , but alfo of adding to the quantity and variety of the contents . Some extracts have in- deed been ...
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... proper tones and accents , would leave us with a faint and indiftinct impreffion , often with a doubtful and ambiguous conception of what he had delivered . Nay , fo clofe is the connection between certain fenti- ments and the proper ...
... proper tones and accents , would leave us with a faint and indiftinct impreffion , often with a doubtful and ambiguous conception of what he had delivered . Nay , fo clofe is the connection between certain fenti- ments and the proper ...
Page viii
... proper founds . · In the third place , in order to articulate diftinctly , moderation is requifite with re- gard to the speed of pronouncing . Preci- pitancy of speech confounds all articula- tion , and all meaning . I need fcarcely ob ...
... proper founds . · In the third place , in order to articulate diftinctly , moderation is requifite with re- gard to the speed of pronouncing . Preci- pitancy of speech confounds all articula- tion , and all meaning . I need fcarcely ob ...
Page ix
... proper manage- ment of the emphafis , the great rule , and in- deed the only rule poffible to be given , is , that the speaker ftudy to attain a juft con- ception of the force and fpirit of thofe fentiments which he is to pronounce ...
... proper manage- ment of the emphafis , the great rule , and in- deed the only rule poffible to be given , is , that the speaker ftudy to attain a juft con- ception of the force and fpirit of thofe fentiments which he is to pronounce ...
Page x
... proper tone of voice , by which the nature of these paufes is in- timated ; much more than by the length of them , which can never be exactly mea- fured . Sometimes it is only a flight and fimple fufpenfion of voice that is proper ...
... proper tone of voice , by which the nature of these paufes is in- timated ; much more than by the length of them , which can never be exactly mea- fured . Sometimes it is only a flight and fimple fufpenfion of voice that is proper ...
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