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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... selected , not only give exercise to a great variety of emotions , and the correspondent tones and variations of voice , but contain sentences , and members of sentences , which are diversified , proportioned , and a 2.
... selected , not only give exercise to a great variety of emotions , and the correspondent tones and variations of voice , but contain sentences , and members of sentences , which are diversified , proportioned , and a 2.
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... 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 readily apply that habit , and the improvements he has made ...
... 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 readily apply that habit , and the improvements he has made ...
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... voice in reading , by which the necessary pauses , emphasis , and tones may be discovered and put in practice , is ... VOICE ; DISTINCTNESS ; SLOWNESS ; PROPRIETY OF PRONUNCIATION ; EMPHASIS ; TONES ; PAUSES ; and MODE OF READING VERSE ...
... voice in reading , by which the necessary pauses , emphasis , and tones may be discovered and put in practice , is ... VOICE ; DISTINCTNESS ; SLOWNESS ; PROPRIETY OF PRONUNCIATION ; EMPHASIS ; TONES ; PAUSES ; and MODE OF READING VERSE ...
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... voice . THE first attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , must be , to make himself be heard by all those to whom he reads . He must endeavour to fill with his voice the space occupied by the company . This power of ...
... voice . THE first attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , must be , to make himself be heard by all those to whom he reads . He must endeavour to fill with his voice the space occupied by the company . This power of ...
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... voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us therefore give the voice full strength and swell of ...
... voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us therefore give the voice full strength and swell of ...
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