The Orator's Guide, Or, Rules for Speaking and Composing: From the Best Authoritiescompiler, G.L. Austin, printer, 1822 - 104 páginas |
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... hands ! This was the more remarkable , inasmuch , as Cæsar was himself , one of the greatest Orator's of his age - all the sart of address , and every avenue to the passions were well known to him , and of course he was the better ...
... hands ! This was the more remarkable , inasmuch , as Cæsar was himself , one of the greatest Orator's of his age - all the sart of address , and every avenue to the passions were well known to him , and of course he was the better ...
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... hands , and adjure him to comply with their request . The poet well knew , that no words of themselves sould represent those agonies of mind he endeavoured to convey , unless heightened by the idea of such ae- fions as were expressive ...
... hands , and adjure him to comply with their request . The poet well knew , that no words of themselves sould represent those agonies of mind he endeavoured to convey , unless heightened by the idea of such ae- fions as were expressive ...
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... hand of a master , and the most clownish and blundering performer . Cadence , is the reverse of emphasis . It is a depres- sion , or lowering of the voice , and commonly falls on the last syllable in a sentence . It must be varied ...
... hand of a master , and the most clownish and blundering performer . Cadence , is the reverse of emphasis . It is a depres- sion , or lowering of the voice , and commonly falls on the last syllable in a sentence . It must be varied ...
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... hand , it is a fault to speak too slowly . This seems to argue a heaviness in the speaker - and as he appears cool himself , he can never expect to warm his hearers , and excite their affections . When not only every word , but every ...
... hand , it is a fault to speak too slowly . This seems to argue a heaviness in the speaker - and as he appears cool himself , he can never expect to warm his hearers , and excite their affections . When not only every word , but every ...
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... the use of proper means . As on the other hand , the best voice may be greatly injured by bad management and indiscretion . * i A temperate habit of living is calculated to 28 23, The Fower and Influence of an Individual, by Pre-
... the use of proper means . As on the other hand , the best voice may be greatly injured by bad management and indiscretion . * i A temperate habit of living is calculated to 28 23, The Fower and Influence of an Individual, by Pre-
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Página 85 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Página 99 - The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me : give place to me that I may dwell.
Página 84 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious...
Página 85 - Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels...
Página 96 - And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Página 100 - Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Página 101 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. " That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us...
Página 68 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced — no matter what complexion, incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon...
Página 99 - For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Página 99 - Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.