The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice, with a Rhetorical Notation, Illustrating Inflection, Emphasis, and Modulation; and a Course of Rhetorical Exercises ... |
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... object with parents of all classes , to have their children well instructed , it would seem reasonable to presume that nearly all our youth , of both sexes , must be good readers . Yet the number who can properly be so called , is ...
... object with parents of all classes , to have their children well instructed , it would seem reasonable to presume that nearly all our youth , of both sexes , must be good readers . Yet the number who can properly be so called , is ...
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... object is to unfetter the soul , and set it free to act . In doing this a notation for the eye , designed to regulate the voice in a few obvious parti- culars , may be of much advantage : otherwise why shall we not dismiss punctuation ...
... object is to unfetter the soul , and set it free to act . In doing this a notation for the eye , designed to regulate the voice in a few obvious parti- culars , may be of much advantage : otherwise why shall we not dismiss punctuation ...
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... object , and calls into action higher powers . It is not applicable to a composi- tion destitute of emotion , for it supposes feeling . It does not barely express the thoughts of an author , but expresses them with the force , variety ...
... object , and calls into action higher powers . It is not applicable to a composi- tion destitute of emotion , for it supposes feeling . It does not barely express the thoughts of an author , but expresses them with the force , variety ...
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... object is suggested or expressed hypothetically . It is not the simple rising slide , but the circumflex , which designates this sort of empha- sis . The two indeed , may fall on shades of thought so nearly the same , that it is ...
... object is suggested or expressed hypothetically . It is not the simple rising slide , but the circumflex , which designates this sort of empha- sis . The two indeed , may fall on shades of thought so nearly the same , that it is ...
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... objects . It will be sufficiently illustrated by a very few examples . | " The young are slaves to novelty , the old to custom . ” " And why beholdest thou the mote that is in 46 EMPHATIC ARTICULATION . Double Emphasis.
... objects . It will be sufficiently illustrated by a very few examples . | " The young are slaves to novelty , the old to custom . ” " And why beholdest thou the mote that is in 46 EMPHATIC ARTICULATION . Double Emphasis.
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accent angel answer antithetic arms articulation behold blessings cadence circumflex close compass dark dead death delivery denote distinction dreadful earth elocution eloquence emotion emphasis emphatic series emphatic stress emphatic words eternal examples EXERCISE expressed falling inflection falling slide father fault feeling fire flames gesture give habits happiness hast hath head hear heard heart heaven Hispaniola hope Hosanna Jesus Julius Cæsar language Lord loud mark Massillon meaning mind never night o'er open vowels pause phatic principle question reader requires the falling rhetorical right hand rising inflection rising slide Rolla rule say unto sense senseless things sentence sentiment servant shining instruments Sidon smile soul sound speak speaker spirit spoken strong syllable tears tell tence thee thing thou thought throne thunder tion tones turn unem uttered voice vowels whole wings
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