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 : Designed for the Use of Academies and High-schools |
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... thing on the subject for publication , I was at last drawn into this measure , gradually and almost unavoidably . The bad habits in elocution , acquired by many educated young men , and conarmed , with little regard to consequences , as ...
... thing on the subject for publication , I was at last drawn into this measure , gradually and almost unavoidably . The bad habits in elocution , acquired by many educated young men , and conarmed , with little regard to consequences , as ...
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... thing of this sort tends to embarrass rather than aid the attainment of a good elocution . But if it is enough to put a book into the hands of a pupil , and require him to read , without giving him any instructions how to read , then I ...
... thing of this sort tends to embarrass rather than aid the attainment of a good elocution . But if it is enough to put a book into the hands of a pupil , and require him to read , without giving him any instructions how to read , then I ...
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... thing like marked stress or inflection is worse than useless . But call the pupil to read ; - " Virtue , not rolling suns , the mind matures : " . 66 -or Arm , warriors ! Arm for fight ! " and it is quite another case . Here stress and ...
... thing like marked stress or inflection is worse than useless . But call the pupil to read ; - " Virtue , not rolling suns , the mind matures : " . 66 -or Arm , warriors ! Arm for fight ! " and it is quite another case . Here stress and ...
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... things . One is , that the slide is not begun so high , and the other , that it is not carried through so many notes , as it ought to be . I explain this by a diagram , thus : Will you or stay ? Will you go to- day , or to- morrow ? I ...
... things . One is , that the slide is not begun so high , and the other , that it is not carried through so many notes , as it ought to be . I explain this by a diagram , thus : Will you or stay ? Will you go to- day , or to- morrow ? I ...
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... things which are needful to the bódy ; what doth it pròfit ? Here the sense is entirely suspended to the close , and yet the clause introduced as the language of another , requires the falling slide . Another exception , resting on ...
... things which are needful to the bódy ; what doth it pròfit ? Here the sense is entirely suspended to the close , and yet the clause introduced as the language of another , requires the falling slide . Another exception , resting on ...
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accent angel answer antithetic arms behold blessings cadence circumflex close dark day of judgement dead death delivery denote distinction divíne dreadful earth elocution eloquence emotion emphasis emphatic series emphatic stress emphatic words eternal examples EXERCISE expressed falling inflection falling slide father fault fire flames gesture give habits happiness hast hath head hear heard heart heaven Hispaniola hope Jesus Julius Cæsar language live Lord loud mark Massillon meaning mind never night o'er open vowels pause phatic principle proper question reader requires the falling rhetorical right hand rising inflection rising slide Rolla rule say unto sense senseless things sentence sentiment servant shining instruments ship Sidon soul sound speak speaker spirit stand strong syllable tears tell tences thee thing thou thought throne thunder tion tones turn unem uttered vowel whole wings
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Page 80 - Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us?
Page 130 - And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid ; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
Page 131 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Page 133 - The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven ; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? But if we shall say, Of men ; we fear the people ; for all hold John as a prophet. And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
Page 130 - And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray : and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
Page 129 - And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 128 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 120 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 288 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week — or the next year?
Page 130 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.