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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... speaker , and not the speaker on the subject . This it will be confessed , is a great desideratum ; and an attempt to this , is the principal object of the present publication . The difficulty of describing action by words , will be al ...
... speaker , and not the speaker on the subject . This it will be confessed , is a great desideratum ; and an attempt to this , is the principal object of the present publication . The difficulty of describing action by words , will be al ...
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... 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 one object to address ; the latter has two . a speaker on ...
... 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 one object to address ; the latter has two . a speaker on ...
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... speaker , at the end of an impassioned speech , may cross over to the place of the other , while the latter , at the same moment , crosses over to the place of the former . This , however , must be done with great care , and so as to ...
... speaker , at the end of an impassioned speech , may cross over to the place of the other , while the latter , at the same moment , crosses over to the place of the former . This , however , must be done with great care , and so as to ...
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... speaker ; but not too pertly . Modesty or submission . bends the body forward ; levels the eyes to the breast , if not to the feet of the superior character . The voice low ; the tone submissive , and words few . Perplexity , or anxiety ...
... speaker ; but not too pertly . Modesty or submission . bends the body forward ; levels the eyes to the breast , if not to the feet of the superior character . The voice low ; the tone submissive , and words few . Perplexity , or anxiety ...
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... speaker , occasions his drawing back , as avoiding the approach of what he hates ; the hands , at the same time , thrown out spread , as if to keep it off . The face turned away from that side toward which the hands are thrown out ; the ...
... speaker , occasions his drawing back , as avoiding the approach of what he hates ; the hands , at the same time , thrown out spread , as if to keep it off . The face turned away from that side toward which the hands are thrown out ; the ...
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