The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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... emphasis depends the life of pronunciation . If no emphasis be placed on any words , not only is discourse rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning left often ambiguous . If the emphasis be placed wrong , we pervert and confound ...
... emphasis depends the life of pronunciation . If no emphasis be placed on any words , not only is discourse rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning left often ambiguous . If the emphasis be placed wrong , we pervert and confound ...
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... emphasis upon the word man's in the first line ; and hence , it would read thus : “ Of man's first disobedience , and the fruit , ” & c . But if it were a notorious truth , that mankind had transgressed in a peculiar manner more than ...
... emphasis upon the word man's in the first line ; and hence , it would read thus : “ Of man's first disobedience , and the fruit , ” & c . But if it were a notorious truth , that mankind had transgressed in a peculiar manner more than ...
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... emphasis must be restrained , in order to make it meet the approbation of sound judgment and correct taste . It will doubtless have different degrees of exertion , according to the greater or less degree of importance of the words upon ...
... emphasis must be restrained , in order to make it meet the approbation of sound judgment and correct taste . It will doubtless have different degrees of exertion , according to the greater or less degree of importance of the words upon ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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