The Columbian Reader: Comprising a New and Various Selection of Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, for the Use of Schools in the United States, to which is Prefixed an Introduction on the Arts of Reading and SpeakingR. P. & C. Williams, 1815 - 204 pages |
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Page xii
... orator , who does not , to a dis- tinct articulation , a ready command of voice , and just pronunciation , accent and emphasis , add the various expressions of emotion and passion . Reading may , with propriety , be called artificial ...
... orator , who does not , to a dis- tinct articulation , a ready command of voice , and just pronunciation , accent and emphasis , add the various expressions of emotion and passion . Reading may , with propriety , be called artificial ...
Page xiv
... orator . Articulation implies those modifications of sound , by which the letters , syllables , or words of any lan- guage are expressed by the operation of the voice , or faculty of speech . And the business of articulation is to make ...
... orator . Articulation implies those modifications of sound , by which the letters , syllables , or words of any lan- guage are expressed by the operation of the voice , or faculty of speech . And the business of articulation is to make ...
Page 117
... orator , deserves to be considered as one of the most eloquent men in the world ; if eloquence may be said to consist in the power of seizing the attention with irresistible force , and never permitting it to elude the grasp , until the ...
... orator , deserves to be considered as one of the most eloquent men in the world ; if eloquence may be said to consist in the power of seizing the attention with irresistible force , and never permitting it to elude the grasp , until the ...
Contents
General Observations on the Arts of Reading and Speaking | ix |
Delineation of some of the most powerful passions | xxviii |
On the Reading or Recitation of different Species of Prose | xxxvi |
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