An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricT. and J. Swords, 1813 - 287 pages |
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... public speaking , and theatrical entertainments of the ancients . Our modera pronunciation would have seemed to them a lifeless monotony . The declamation of their orators and the pronunciation of their ac- tors upon the stage ...
... public speaking , and theatrical entertainments of the ancients . Our modera pronunciation would have seemed to them a lifeless monotony . The declamation of their orators and the pronunciation of their ac- tors upon the stage ...
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... public speaking of any kind must in every country bear some proportion to the manner which is used in con- versation ; and such public entertainments could never be relished by a nation whose tones and gestures in discourse were as ...
... public speaking of any kind must in every country bear some proportion to the manner which is used in con- versation ; and such public entertainments could never be relished by a nation whose tones and gestures in discourse were as ...
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... speak their own language with propriety . Let the matter of an author be ever so good and useful , his composi- tions will always suffer in the public esteem , if his expression be deficient in purity or proprie- ty . At the same time ...
... speak their own language with propriety . Let the matter of an author be ever so good and useful , his composi- tions will always suffer in the public esteem , if his expression be deficient in purity or proprie- ty . At the same time ...
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... speech , fit only for animated composition , is called VISION : when , instead of relating something that is past , we ... public speak- ers , is CLIMAX . It consists in an artful exaggera- tion of all the circumstances of some object or ...
... speech , fit only for animated composition , is called VISION : when , instead of relating something that is past , we ... public speak- ers , is CLIMAX . It consists in an artful exaggera- tion of all the circumstances of some object or ...
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... speak in public . To attempt a poeti- cal style when it should be our business only to reason , is in the highest degree awkward and ab- surd . To speak with elaborate pomp of words be- fore those who cannot comprehend them , is equal ...
... speak in public . To attempt a poeti- cal style when it should be our business only to reason , is in the highest degree awkward and ab- surd . To speak with elaborate pomp of words be- fore those who cannot comprehend them , is equal ...
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