The American SpeakerExcerpt from The American Speaker: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises on Pronunciation, Pauses, Inflections, Accent, and Emphasis Exercises on the Interrogation, Exclamation, and Parenthesis. Table of Inflections on the Series. Simple Commencing Series. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... reason and judgment . The former is more the gift of nature ; the latter , more the product of cul- ture and art . Among the ancient critics , Longinus pos- sessed most delicacy ' ; Aristotle most correctness . Among the moderns , Mr ...
... reason for which ; and so of the rest . It must , however , be noted , that when a preposition comes before one of these relatives , the pause is before the preposition ; and that , if any of these words is the last word of the sen ...
... reason ? Is it law ? Is it humanity ? Sir , neither the human heart nor the human understanding will bear a perversion so monstrous and absurd ! so shocking to the soul ! so revolting to reason ! Let Aaron Burr , then , not shrink from ...
Contents
DIFFERENT Methods by which the Principles and Lessons may | 15 |
Sentences depending on Adjectives | 21 |
Exclamation | 28 |
Copyright | |
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