The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers: Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingIsaac Collins and Son, 1802 - 366 páginas |
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... should generally ufe in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to imagine that one must take the highest pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is confounding two things which are different ...
... should generally ufe in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to imagine that one must take the highest pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is confounding two things which are different ...
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... should be very careful to provide a full fupply of breath for what he is to utter . It is a great mistake to imagine , that the breath must be drawn only at the end of a period , when the voice is allowed to fall . It may eafily be ...
... should be very careful to provide a full fupply of breath for what he is to utter . It is a great mistake to imagine , that the breath must be drawn only at the end of a period , when the voice is allowed to fall . It may eafily be ...
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... should be denoted only by such a flight fufpenfion of found , as may diftinguish the paffage from one line to another , without injuring the meaning . The other kind of melodious paufe , is that which falls fomewhere about the middle of ...
... should be denoted only by such a flight fufpenfion of found , as may diftinguish the paffage from one line to another , without injuring the meaning . The other kind of melodious paufe , is that which falls fomewhere about the middle of ...
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... , and build his houfe on the rock , and not on the fand , should contemplate human life , not only in the funshine , but in the fhade . Let ufefulness and beneficence , not oftentation and vanity , 2 Part I. The English Reader .
... , and build his houfe on the rock , and not on the fand , should contemplate human life , not only in the funshine , but in the fhade . Let ufefulness and beneficence , not oftentation and vanity , 2 Part I. The English Reader .
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... should correct anxiety about worldly fuccefs . The veil which covers from our fight the events of fucceeding years , is a veil woven by the hand of mercy . ' ! The beft preparation for all the uncertainties of futurity , confifts in a ...
... should correct anxiety about worldly fuccefs . The veil which covers from our fight the events of fucceeding years , is a veil woven by the hand of mercy . ' ! The beft preparation for all the uncertainties of futurity , confifts in a ...
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