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Many dashes in writing , and frequent changes of character in printing , are attended with equally bad effects . They deform the page , defeat the end of distinction , and spread over it an air , of pedantry , conceit , and curious ...
Many dashes in writing , and frequent changes of character in printing , are attended with equally bad effects . They deform the page , defeat the end of distinction , and spread over it an air , of pedantry , conceit , and curious ...
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He who mutters below , soon wearies himself , becomes inaudible , and altogether oppresses his hearers . Thus each extreme is almost equally disadvantageous to the object of public speaking , but not equally irremediable ...
He who mutters below , soon wearies himself , becomes inaudible , and altogether oppresses his hearers . Thus each extreme is almost equally disadvantageous to the object of public speaking , but not equally irremediable ...
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The language of poetry , and the gesture suited to express clevated ideas equally differ from the colloquial and ordinary . But this difference , if we except the English , and a few rich languages , which possess also a distinct ...
The language of poetry , and the gesture suited to express clevated ideas equally differ from the colloquial and ordinary . But this difference , if we except the English , and a few rich languages , which possess also a distinct ...
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Contents
Chironomia or a Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery | 1 |
Of the Voice | 27 |
Of the VoiceGeneral Precepts | 67 |
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| Title | Chironomia: Or, A Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery Landmarks in rhetoric and public address |
| Author | Gilbert Austin |
| Editors | Mary Margaret Robb, Lester Thonssen |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Southern Illinois University Press, 1966 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0809302292, 9780809302291 |
| Length | 583 pages |
| Subjects | › Language Arts & Disciplines / General |
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