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Page 59
... discourse . For this purpose Mr. Sheridan recommends , that he should address himself to some person of the most distant in the audience , whom if he reach so as to be heard , he may be sure all the intermediate persons will hear him ...
... discourse . For this purpose Mr. Sheridan recommends , that he should address himself to some person of the most distant in the audience , whom if he reach so as to be heard , he may be sure all the intermediate persons will hear him ...
Page 104
... discourses " than orations . For though every conversation is a discourse , yet the conversations of an orator alone are distinguished by " this name . " 27.2 If the language and matter of a discourse from the pulpit should be divested ...
... discourses " than orations . For though every conversation is a discourse , yet the conversations of an orator alone are distinguished by " this name . " 27.2 If the language and matter of a discourse from the pulpit should be divested ...
Page 433
... discourse for which he also reserves the brilliancy of language and thought . As words of themselves when composed and delivered with propriety , are fully intelligible for every purpose of argument , instruction , and information ; in ...
... discourse for which he also reserves the brilliancy of language and thought . As words of themselves when composed and delivered with propriety , are fully intelligible for every purpose of argument , instruction , and information ; in ...
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Chironomia or a Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery | 1 |
Of the Voice | 27 |
Of the VoiceGeneral Precepts | 67 |
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