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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... person he speaks to without any regard to the point of view in which he stands , with respect to the audience , he would be apt to turn his back on themj and to place himself in such positions as would be highly ungrace . ful and ...
... person he speaks to without any regard to the point of view in which he stands , with respect to the audience , he would be apt to turn his back on themj and to place himself in such positions as would be highly ungrace . ful and ...
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... person or object ; gives assent , or denial , by different motions ; threatens by one sort of movement , approves by another , and expresses suspicion by a third . The arms are sometimes both thrown out , sometimes the right alone ...
... person or object ; gives assent , or denial , by different motions ; threatens by one sort of movement , approves by another , and expresses suspicion by a third . The arms are sometimes both thrown out , sometimes the right alone ...
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... persons . The countenance is smiling not composedly , but with features aggravated . The voice rises , from ... person walks about busily , stops abruptly . Then he talks to himself , or makes grimaces . If he speaks to another ...
... persons . The countenance is smiling not composedly , but with features aggravated . The voice rises , from ... person walks about busily , stops abruptly . Then he talks to himself , or makes grimaces . If he speaks to another ...
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... person . Grief , sudden and violent , expresses itself by beating the head ; grovelling on the ground , tearing of garments , hair and flesh ; screaming aloud , weeping , stamping with the feet , lifting the eyes , from time to time ...
... person . Grief , sudden and violent , expresses itself by beating the head ; grovelling on the ground , tearing of garments , hair and flesh ; screaming aloud , weeping , stamping with the feet , lifting the eyes , from time to time ...
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... persons . as- women and children , violent shrieks , without any articu- late sound of words ; and sometimes ... person dumb , or , if he attempts to say any thing in his own defence , causes his tongue to faulter and confounds ...
... persons . as- women and children , violent shrieks , without any articu- late sound of words ; and sometimes ... person dumb , or , if he attempts to say any thing in his own defence , causes his tongue to faulter and confounds ...
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