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 iv
... thing is accommodated to the understand- ing and the voice ; and the common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences with justness and facility , he will ...
... thing is accommodated to the understand- ing and the voice ; and the common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences with justness and facility , he will ...
Page xi
... things which are different , loudness or strength of sound , with the key or note on which we speak . There is a variety of sound , within the compass of each key . A speaker may therefore render his voice louder , without altering the ...
... things which are different , loudness or strength of sound , with the key or note on which we speak . There is a variety of sound , within the compass of each key . A speaker may therefore render his voice louder , without altering the ...
Page xix
... carry it far beyond any thing to be found in common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give variety to INTRODUCTION . xix .
... carry it far beyond any thing to be found in common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give variety to INTRODUCTION . xix .
Page xx
... things not words : they " exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the under- standing . " 66 Some sentences are so full and comprehensive , that almost every word is emphatical : as , " Ye hills and " dales , ye rivers , woods , and ...
... things not words : they " exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the under- standing . " 66 Some sentences are so full and comprehensive , that almost every word is emphatical : as , " Ye hills and " dales , ye rivers , woods , and ...
Page xxii
... thing he expresses of high importance , by a multitude of strong emphases , we soon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with Italic characters ...
... thing he expresses of high importance , by a multitude of strong emphases , we soon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with Italic characters ...
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