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 ReadingIsaac Collins and Son, 1802 - 366 sider |
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Side viii
... means , than the force of example influencing the imitative powers of the learner . Some rules and principles on these heads will , however , be found useful , to prevent erroneous and vicious modes of utterance ; to give the young ...
... means , than the force of example influencing the imitative powers of the learner . Some rules and principles on these heads will , however , be found useful , to prevent erroneous and vicious modes of utterance ; to give the young ...
Side xi
... mean- ing . It is fcarcely neceffary to obferve , that there may be also an extreme on the oppofite fide . It is obvious that a lifeless drawling manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the ...
... mean- ing . It is fcarcely neceffary to obferve , that there may be also an extreme on the oppofite fide . It is obvious that a lifeless drawling manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the ...
Side xxii
... means be fufficient to attend to the points used in printing ; for thefe are far from marking all the paufes , which ought to be made in reading . A mechanical attention to thefe refting places , has perhaps been one caufe of monotony ...
... means be fufficient to attend to the points used in printing ; for thefe are far from marking all the paufes , which ought to be made in reading . A mechanical attention to thefe refting places , has perhaps been one caufe of monotony ...
Side 13
... mean their minds , paf- fions , notions , as well as their perfons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I prefume the self - love common to human nature , would generally make them prefer their own condition . We have obliged fome perfons ...
... mean their minds , paf- fions , notions , as well as their perfons , fortunes , and dignities , ) - I prefume the self - love common to human nature , would generally make them prefer their own condition . We have obliged fome perfons ...
Side 36
... means agreeable to her . to accept of the crown ; pleaded the preferable right of the two princeffes ; expreffed her dread of the confequences attending an enterprife fo dangerous , not to fay fo criminal ; and defired to remain in that ...
... means agreeable to her . to accept of the crown ; pleaded the preferable right of the two princeffes ; expreffed her dread of the confequences attending an enterprife fo dangerous , not to fay fo criminal ; and defired to remain in that ...
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