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 Reading |
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD READING . Theo O read with
propriety , is a pleasing and important attainment ; productive of improvement
both to the understanding and the heart . It is essential to a complete reader that
he ...
OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD READING . Theo O read with
propriety , is a pleasing and important attainment ; productive of improvement
both to the understanding and the heart . It is essential to a complete reader that
he ...
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It is a useful rule too , in order to be well heard , to cast our eye on some of the
most distant persons in the company , and to consider ourselves as reading to
them . We naturally and mechanicallvutter our words with such a degree of
strength ...
It is a useful rule too , in order to be well heard , to cast our eye on some of the
most distant persons in the company , and to consider ourselves as reading to
them . We naturally and mechanicallvutter our words with such a degree of
strength ...
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It is obvious that a lifeless , drawling manner of reading , which allows the minds
of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every such
performance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much
inore ...
It is obvious that a lifeless , drawling manner of reading , which allows the minds
of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every such
performance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much
inore ...
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The correct and natural language of the tions , is not so difficult to be obtained as
most readers seem to imagine . If we enter into the spirit of the author's
sentiments , as well as into the meaning of his words , we shall not fail to deliver
the words ...
The correct and natural language of the tions , is not so difficult to be obtained as
most readers seem to imagine . If we enter into the spirit of the author's
sentiments , as well as into the meaning of his words , we shall not fail to deliver
the words ...
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PAUses or rests , in speaking or reading , are a tolal cessa . tion of the voice ,
during a perceptible , and , in many cases , a measurable space of time . Pauses
are equally necessary to the speaker and the hearer . To the speaker , that he
may ...
PAUses or rests , in speaking or reading , are a tolal cessa . tion of the voice ,
during a perceptible , and , in many cases , a measurable space of time . Pauses
are equally necessary to the speaker and the hearer . To the speaker , that he
may ...
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| Título | 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 ... |
| Autor | Lindley Murray |
| Editor | John J. Williams, 1822 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 23 Mar 2007 |
| Largo | 264 páginas |
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