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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Page xiv
... regard to the speed of pronouncing . Precipitancy of speech confounds all articulation , and all meaning . It is scarcely nécessary to observe , that there may be also an extreme on the opposite side . It is obvious that a lifeless ...
... regard to the speed of pronouncing . Precipitancy of speech confounds all articulation , and all meaning . It is scarcely nécessary to observe , that there may be also an extreme on the opposite side . It is obvious that a lifeless ...
Page xxi
... regard to meaning . Emphasis also , in particular cases , alters the seat of accent . This is demonstrable from the following examples : " He shall increase , but I shall " decrease . " " There is a difference between giving and ...
... regard to meaning . Emphasis also , in particular cases , alters the seat of accent . This is demonstrable from the following examples : " He shall increase , but I shall " decrease . " " There is a difference between giving and ...
Page xxii
... regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with Italic characters ; which , as to the effect , is just the same as to use no such distinctions at all . SECTION VI . Tones ...
... regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with Italic characters ; which , as to the effect , is just the same as to use no such distinctions at all . SECTION VI . Tones ...
Page xxiii
... regard to the rest of the animal world ; all of which express their various feel- ings , by various tones . Ours , indeed , from the supe- rior rank that we hold , are in a high degree more comprehensive ; as there is not an act of the ...
... regard to the rest of the animal world ; all of which express their various feel- ings , by various tones . Ours , indeed , from the supe- rior rank that we hold , are in a high degree more comprehensive ; as there is not an act of the ...
Page xxix
... regard to the closing pause , it admits of both . The falling inflection generally accompanies it ; but it is not unfrequently connected with the rising inflec- tion . Interrogative sentences , for instance , are often terminated in ...
... regard to the closing pause , it admits of both . The falling inflection generally accompanies it ; but it is not unfrequently connected with the rising inflec- tion . Interrogative sentences , for instance , are often terminated in ...
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