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... reveal the logical analysis and the literary or artistic interpretation . Mere taste or feeling must not be accepted as a standard . These will afterwards come to assert themselves all the more effectually , if at first they are made ...
... reveal the logical analysis and the literary or artistic interpretation . Mere taste or feeling must not be accepted as a standard . These will afterwards come to assert themselves all the more effectually , if at first they are made ...
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... Reveal Assumption and Assertion Em- ploying Inversion 88-115 116-125 CHAPTER X. COMPLEX RELATIONS . Comparison or Contrast with Affirmation ; Falling Circum- flex . Comparison or Contrast with Incompleteness ; The Wave . Affirmation ...
... Reveal Assumption and Assertion Em- ploying Inversion 88-115 116-125 CHAPTER X. COMPLEX RELATIONS . Comparison or Contrast with Affirmation ; Falling Circum- flex . Comparison or Contrast with Incompleteness ; The Wave . Affirmation ...
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... of tone through which the hu- man mind can reveal itself , giving a wider range of means than writing all that writing can give and much more . to respiration , circulation , and general physical vigor- all RELATIONS OF THE SUBJECT . 3.
... of tone through which the hu- man mind can reveal itself , giving a wider range of means than writing all that writing can give and much more . to respiration , circulation , and general physical vigor- all RELATIONS OF THE SUBJECT . 3.
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... varied properties of tone through which the hu- man mind can reveal itself , giving a wider range of means than writing all that writing can give and much more . Elocution , then , in the best sense , is RELATIONS OF THE SUBJECT . 3.
... varied properties of tone through which the hu- man mind can reveal itself , giving a wider range of means than writing all that writing can give and much more . Elocution , then , in the best sense , is RELATIONS OF THE SUBJECT . 3.
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... reveal , or present . They are in- tellective , unimpassioned , usually simple and small . In the limited use of gesture , which is appropriate to the Deliberative Mood , the position of the body becomes specially important . This ...
... reveal , or present . They are in- tellective , unimpassioned , usually simple and small . In the limited use of gesture , which is appropriate to the Deliberative Mood , the position of the body becomes specially important . This ...
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abruptness accented action amphibrach analysis anapestic appoggiatura assertion attitude bearing breath Brutus Bunker Hill Monument business waiting Cæs cæsura CHAPTER chest circumflex clause condition connection dactylic deliberative diaphragm discrimination effect element emotional energy especially euphony example expansion expressional falling slide feeling force gesture give gliding hand hath heaven heigh-ho iambic ically impulse inflection insistent intensity interpretation intervals Julius Cæsar lines listener logical Lord measure melody ment mental mind moods of utterance movement muscles N. P. Willis natural ness noble object pantomimic paraphrase passages pause phrase poetry practical properties prose rhythms purpose reader reason relations reveal rhetorical scansion Scene Scrooge sense sentence significance simply singing soul sound speak speaker speech spondaic stress student subjective suggest syllables thee thing thou thought tion tone trochaic unaccented unto usually verse vocal expression voice volitional vowels whole words
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