A Course of Lectures on Elocution:: Together with Two Dissertations on Language; and Some Other Tracts Relative to Those SubjectsPrinted, by assignment from the executors of James Dodsley, for C. Dilly; T.N. Longman; Vernor and Hood; J. Walker; C. Law ... [and 3 others], 1798 - Elocution - 365 pages |
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Page xi
... thofe , who have examined the many controverfial writings fince published , fay , whether the chief cause of these endlefs difputes be not ftill the fame , an ' abuse of words . ' Upon the clofeft examination , indeed , it would appear ...
... thofe , who have examined the many controverfial writings fince published , fay , whether the chief cause of these endlefs difputes be not ftill the fame , an ' abuse of words . ' Upon the clofeft examination , indeed , it would appear ...
Page xii
... thofe important parts of our internal frame ; or any well - founded knowledge of the princi- ples by which the faculties belonging to them ought to be regulated ; that every day we fee fome new hypothefis advanced upon that fub- ject ...
... thofe important parts of our internal frame ; or any well - founded knowledge of the princi- ples by which the faculties belonging to them ought to be regulated ; that every day we fee fome new hypothefis advanced upon that fub- ject ...
Page xiv
... thofe nations that have . no names for number beyond three , might as well pretend to difplay all the wonders of arith- metic , as we to delineate the immenfe field of mental emotions , without a fufficient number of marks to ftand as ...
... thofe nations that have . no names for number beyond three , might as well pretend to difplay all the wonders of arith- metic , as we to delineate the immenfe field of mental emotions , without a fufficient number of marks to ftand as ...
Page xv
... thofe I mean of a refined under- ftanding , and delicate fenfibility : it must be allowed that the execution of fuch a plan , would tend more to the real benefit of this realm , than all the uninspired books that have been written from ...
... thofe I mean of a refined under- ftanding , and delicate fenfibility : it must be allowed that the execution of fuch a plan , would tend more to the real benefit of this realm , than all the uninspired books that have been written from ...
Page xvi
... thofe , whofe minds have been narrowed by an early falfe bias given to us in our fyftem of education , and afterwards con- tinued thro ' life ; I mean that extravagant idea entertained of the power of writing , far beyond what in its ...
... thofe , whofe minds have been narrowed by an early falfe bias given to us in our fyftem of education , and afterwards con- tinued thro ' life ; I mean that extravagant idea entertained of the power of writing , far beyond what in its ...
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