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-schoolsDayton and Newman, 1835 - 304 páginas |
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... natural , be made responsible , not merely for its own propor- tion , out for the whole of these defects . The only remedy for habits thus firmly established , obviously must lie in a patient , elementary process , adapted to form new ...
... natural , be made responsible , not merely for its own propor- tion , out for the whole of these defects . The only remedy for habits thus firmly established , obviously must lie in a patient , elementary process , adapted to form new ...
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... 27 and 110. - After getting the command of the voice , the great point to be steadily kept in view , is to apply the principles of emphasis and inflection , just as nature and sentiment demand . In respect to those principles of.
... 27 and 110. - After getting the command of the voice , the great point to be steadily kept in view , is to apply the principles of emphasis and inflection , just as nature and sentiment demand . In respect to those principles of.
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... NATURAL . But what is it to be natural ? The pupil will understand , probably , that he is to read in the manner that is most easy to himself , or that gives him the least trouble ; that is , the manner to which he is accustomed . Bad ...
... NATURAL . But what is it to be natural ? The pupil will understand , probably , that he is to read in the manner that is most easy to himself , or that gives him the least trouble ; that is , the manner to which he is accustomed . Bad ...
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... natural ; and if any think it to be so , I must suppose that they have not been accustomed to distinguish between a slide of the voice , and that transition of note to higher or lower , in which consecutive syllables are uttered . If ...
... natural ; and if any think it to be so , I must suppose that they have not been accustomed to distinguish between a slide of the voice , and that transition of note to higher or lower , in which consecutive syllables are uttered . If ...
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... nature , they are instinctively right ; so that scarcely a man in a million uses artificial tones in conversation . And this one fact , I remark in passing , furnishes a standing canon to the learner in elocution . In contending with ...
... nature , they are instinctively right ; so that scarcely a man in a million uses artificial tones in conversation . And this one fact , I remark in passing , furnishes a standing canon to the learner in elocution . In contending with ...
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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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Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 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.