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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 sider |
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Side vi
... ourselves ? If there were no other benefits resulting from the art of reading well , than the necessity it lays us under , of precisely ascer- taining the meaning of what we read ; and the habit thence acquired , of doing this with ...
... ourselves ? If there were no other benefits resulting from the art of reading well , than the necessity it lays us under , of precisely ascer- taining the meaning of what we read ; and the habit thence acquired , of doing this with ...
Side viii
... ourselves less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and when- ever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always beard with pain by his audience . Let ...
... ourselves less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and when- ever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always beard with pain by his audience . Let ...
Side x
... ourselves distinctly , moderation is requisite with regard to the speed of pronouncing . Precipitancy of speech confounds all articulation , and all meaning . It is scarcely necessary to observe , that there may be also an extreme on ...
... ourselves distinctly , moderation is requisite with regard to the speed of pronouncing . Precipitancy of speech confounds all articulation , and all meaning . It is scarcely necessary to observe , that there may be also an extreme on ...
Side xv
... ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest to strike the feel- ings of others . There is one error , against which it is particularly proper to caution the learner ; namely , that of multi- plying emphatical words too ...
... ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest to strike the feel- ings of others . There is one error , against which it is particularly proper to caution the learner ; namely , that of multi- plying emphatical words too ...
Side xviii
... improper interruptions . Pauses in reading , must generally be formed upon the man- ner in which we utter ourselves in ordinary , sensible conversa . tion ; and not upon the stiff artificial manner , xviii . Introduction .
... improper interruptions . Pauses in reading , must generally be formed upon the man- ner in which we utter ourselves in ordinary , sensible conversa . tion ; and not upon the stiff artificial manner , xviii . Introduction .
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