Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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... give us a regular system of gesture , suited to the wants and eapacities of schoolboys . Mr. Burgh , in his Art of Speaking , has given us a system of the passions ; and has shown us how they appear in the countenance and operate on the ...
... give us a regular system of gesture , suited to the wants and eapacities of schoolboys . Mr. Burgh , in his Art of Speaking , has given us a system of the passions ; and has shown us how they appear in the countenance and operate on the ...
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... give any description of it . But there are many de- grees between conveying a precise idea of a thing , and no idea at all . Besides , in this part of delivery , instruction may be conveyed by the eye ; and this organ is a much more ...
... give any description of it . But there are many de- grees between conveying a precise idea of a thing , and no idea at all . Besides , in this part of delivery , instruction may be conveyed by the eye ; and this organ is a much more ...
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... give some additional in . structions respecting action ; as a speaker who delivers himself singly to an auditory , and one who addresses another speaker , in view of an auditory , are under very different predicaments . former has only ...
... give some additional in . structions respecting action ; as a speaker who delivers himself singly to an auditory , and one who addresses another speaker , in view of an auditory , are under very different predicaments . former has only ...
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... give it additional force and variety . Thus , what seemed either unworthy the attention , or too -difficult for the execution of others , the author of the pres- ent publication has ventured to attempt . A conviction of the necessity of ...
... give it additional force and variety . Thus , what seemed either unworthy the attention , or too -difficult for the execution of others , the author of the pres- ent publication has ventured to attempt . A conviction of the necessity of ...
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... give the teacher an opportunity of ranking them according to their merit . SECTION III . Rules for expressing , with ... gives assent , or denial , by different motions ; threatens by one sort of movement , approves by another ...
... give the teacher an opportunity of ranking them according to their merit . SECTION III . Rules for expressing , with ... gives assent , or denial , by different motions ; threatens by one sort of movement , approves by another ...
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