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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... objects of sight , Spectator , 183 40. Liberty and slavery , Sterne , 186 11. The cant of criticism , ib . 187 12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden , Johnson , 488 13 Story of le Fever , Sterne , 189 SECTION VI . 1. The shepherd and the ...
... objects of sight , Spectator , 183 40. Liberty and slavery , Sterne , 186 11. The cant of criticism , ib . 187 12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden , Johnson , 488 13 Story of le Fever , Sterne , 189 SECTION VI . 1. The shepherd and the ...
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... object El Cuention in the most respectable schools in this country . A laudable ambition of instructing youth in the pronunciation and delivery of their native language , has inade English speeches a very conspicuous part of those ...
... object El Cuention in the most respectable schools in this country . A laudable ambition of instructing youth in the pronunciation and delivery of their native language , has inade English speeches a very conspicuous part of those ...
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... object to address ; the latter has two . a speaker on the stage were to address the person he speaks to without any ... objects , and without it , that is , if both speakers use the right hand , and stand exactly fronting each ...
... object to address ; the latter has two . a speaker on the stage were to address the person he speaks to without any ... objects , and without it , that is , if both speakers use the right hand , and stand exactly fronting each ...
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... object of instruction , than the conveying of beauties . There are , indeed , some masters , who are against teach- ing boys any action at all , and are for leaving them in this point entirely to nature . It is happy , however . that ...
... object of instruction , than the conveying of beauties . There are , indeed , some masters , who are against teach- ing boys any action at all , and are for leaving them in this point entirely to nature . It is happy , however . that ...
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... object of the painter's pencil , the poet's pen , and the rhetorician's action , and not that sordid and common nature , which is perfectly rude and uncultivated . Nature directs us to art , and art selects and polishes the beauties of ...
... object of the painter's pencil , the poet's pen , and the rhetorician's action , and not that sordid and common nature , which is perfectly rude and uncultivated . Nature directs us to art , and art selects and polishes the beauties of ...
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