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 iii
... thing is accommodated to the understanding and the voice ; and the common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sen- tences with justness and facility , he will ...
... thing is accommodated to the understanding and the voice ; and the common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sen- tences with justness and facility , he will ...
Side viii
... 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 alter- ing ...
... 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 alter- ing ...
Side xiii
... 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 the modulation . * Notwithstanding this diversity By ...
... 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 the modulation . * Notwithstanding this diversity By ...
Side xiv
... things , not words : they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the understand- ing . " Some sentences are so full and comprehensive , that almost every word is emphatical : as , Ye hills and dales , ye rivers , woods , and plains ...
... things , not words : they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the understand- ing . " Some sentences are so full and comprehensive , that almost every word is emphatical : as , Ye hills and dales , ye rivers , woods , and plains ...
Side xv
... thing he expresses of high importance , by a multitude of strong emphasis , wè soon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowd- ing all the pages of a book with Italic characters ...
... thing he expresses of high importance , by a multitude of strong emphasis , wè soon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowd- ing all the pages of a book with Italic characters ...
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