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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... fome of the most important principles of piety and virtue . THE pieces felected , not only give exercise to a great variety of emotions , and the correfpondent tones and variations of voice , but contain fentences and members of ...
... fome of the most important principles of piety and virtue . THE pieces felected , not only give exercise to a great variety of emotions , and the correfpondent tones and variations of voice , but contain fentences and members of ...
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... of pieces which amufe as well as of * In fome of the pieces , the Compiler has made a few alteration . chiefly verbal , to adapt them the better to the defign of his work . inftruct . If , however , any of his readers A 2 PREFACE.
... of pieces which amufe as well as of * In fome of the pieces , the Compiler has made a few alteration . chiefly verbal , to adapt them the better to the defign of his work . inftruct . If , however , any of his readers A 2 PREFACE.
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... fome apology , to observe that , in the existing publications defigned for the perufal of young perfons , the preponderance is greatly on the fide of gay and amufing productions . Too much attention may be paid to this medium of improve ...
... fome apology , to observe that , in the existing publications defigned for the perufal of young perfons , the preponderance is greatly on the fide of gay and amufing productions . Too much attention may be paid to this medium of improve ...
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... fome taste of the fubject ; and to aflift him in acquiring a juft and accurate mode of delivery . The observations which we have to make , for these purposes , may be comprifed under the following heads .: PROPER LOUDNESS OF VOICE ; DIS ...
... fome taste of the fubject ; and to aflift him in acquiring a juft and accurate mode of delivery . The observations which we have to make , for these purposes , may be comprifed under the following heads .: PROPER LOUDNESS OF VOICE ; DIS ...
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... fome perfon at a distance . The low is , when he approaches to a whisper . The middle is , that which he employs in common con- verfation , and which he should generally ufe in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to imagine ...
... fome perfon at a distance . The low is , when he approaches to a whisper . The middle is , that which he employs in common con- verfation , and which he should generally ufe in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to imagine ...
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