The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds of Language, Up to the Highest Tone of Expression in Speech, Attainable by the Human VoiceSampson, Low, 1846 - 383 pages |
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... ROCHE . - MACKENZIE . * MORE than forty years ago , an English philosopher , whose works have since been read and admired by all Europe , resided at a little town in France . Some disappointments in his native country had first driven ...
... ROCHE . - MACKENZIE . * MORE than forty years ago , an English philosopher , whose works have since been read and admired by all Europe , resided at a little town in France . Some disappointments in his native country had first driven ...
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... Roche , a widower , who had lately buried his wife after a long and linger- ing illness , for which travelling had been prescribed ; and was now returning home , after an ineffectual and melancholy journey , with his only child , the ...
... Roche , a widower , who had lately buried his wife after a long and linger- ing illness , for which travelling had been prescribed ; and was now returning home , after an ineffectual and melancholy journey , with his only child , the ...
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... Roche ; " yet he saved my father ! Heaven bless him for it ! I would he were a Christian ! ” " There is a pride in human knowledge , my child , ” said her father , " which often blinds men to the sub- lime truths of revelation ; hence ...
... Roche ; " yet he saved my father ! Heaven bless him for it ! I would he were a Christian ! ” " There is a pride in human knowledge , my child , ” said her father , " which often blinds men to the sub- lime truths of revelation ; hence ...
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... Roche's eyes glistened at the proposal ; his daughter was called in and told of it . She was equal- ly pleased , with her father ; for they really loved their landlord — not perhaps the less for his infidelity ; at least , that ...
... Roche's eyes glistened at the proposal ; his daughter was called in and told of it . She was equal- ly pleased , with her father ; for they really loved their landlord — not perhaps the less for his infidelity ; at least , that ...
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... Roche , and sometimes envied her father the possession of such a child . After a journey of eleven days , they arrived at the dwelling of La Roche . It was situated in one of those valleys of the Canton of Berne , where nature seems to ...
... Roche , and sometimes envied her father the possession of such a child . After a journey of eleven days , they arrived at the dwelling of La Roche . It was situated in one of those valleys of the Canton of Berne , where nature seems to ...
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The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds ... George Vanderhoff No preview available - 2015 |
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