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Q Mucius also spoke for him , in “ his usual accurate and polished manner : but by no means " with that vigour and copiousness , which a trial of that kind , " and the magnitude of such a cause required . ” “ Thus we reckon Rutilius ...
Q Mucius also spoke for him , in “ his usual accurate and polished manner : but by no means " with that vigour and copiousness , which a trial of that kind , " and the magnitude of such a cause required . ” “ Thus we reckon Rutilius ...
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... if it be not sensible that the person who frowns is angry ? we must therefore admit , that a child can read anger in its nurse's face ; and it must be “ sensible of this intuitively ; for it has no other means of knowledge .
... if it be not sensible that the person who frowns is angry ? we must therefore admit , that a child can read anger in its nurse's face ; and it must be “ sensible of this intuitively ; for it has no other means of knowledge .
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5,272 — is an accession to the means of communicating ideas by writing , 275 — why so named , 276 — its great advantage in abbreviating the tedious description of gesture in ordinary language , 276 — the painter likely to profit by it ...
5,272 — is an accession to the means of communicating ideas by writing , 275 — why so named , 276 — its great advantage in abbreviating the tedious description of gesture in ordinary language , 276 — the painter likely to profit by it ...
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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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