The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. CarpenterJoseph Edwards Carpenter 1869 |
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... bears ample testimony , and many and deep must have been the lamentations of a majority of the readers that they had not in their youth been taught this essential branch of a thorough English education . It is to be feared that this ...
... bears ample testimony , and many and deep must have been the lamentations of a majority of the readers that they had not in their youth been taught this essential branch of a thorough English education . It is to be feared that this ...
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... bear fruit . CHAPTER II . ELOCUTION CONSIDERED AS AN ART . the con- ORATORY , like poetry , is a gift , and cannot be acquired ; ception of original ideas and the ability to put them rapidly into form is common to both - but as ...
... bear fruit . CHAPTER II . ELOCUTION CONSIDERED AS AN ART . the con- ORATORY , like poetry , is a gift , and cannot be acquired ; ception of original ideas and the ability to put them rapidly into form is common to both - but as ...
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... bears the distinctive impress of its particular writer , and then let him endeavour to deliver it as if the ideas and sentiments were his own , and in that natural and forcible manner as in that case he would ; and this can only be ...
... bears the distinctive impress of its particular writer , and then let him endeavour to deliver it as if the ideas and sentiments were his own , and in that natural and forcible manner as in that case he would ; and this can only be ...
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... bears no incon- siderable part . Thus , for instance , a sedate expression at once im- plies a mature consideration of the argument about to be advanced , and communicates insensibly an idea of its importance . And on the contrary , a ...
... bears no incon- siderable part . Thus , for instance , a sedate expression at once im- plies a mature consideration of the argument about to be advanced , and communicates insensibly an idea of its importance . And on the contrary , a ...
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... bear the impress of his general study , and manifest itself in force , expression , and grace . CHAPTER VII . ON READING VERSE . ALTHOUGH the rules laid down in the preceding chapters apply alike to poetry and prose , a few observations ...
... bear the impress of his general study , and manifest itself in force , expression , and grace . CHAPTER VII . ON READING VERSE . ALTHOUGH the rules laid down in the preceding chapters apply alike to poetry and prose , a few observations ...
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