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Perhaps the most recent reference to Austin is to be found in Public Speaking as a Liberal Art by John F. Wilson and Carroll C. Arnold , published in 1964.41 Some of the steel engravings are used for decoration and perhaps to suggest ...
Perhaps the most recent reference to Austin is to be found in Public Speaking as a Liberal Art by John F. Wilson and Carroll C. Arnold , published in 1964.41 Some of the steel engravings are used for decoration and perhaps to suggest ...
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The positions and motions of the hands are so numerous , and may be so exceedingly varied by minute changes , that it would perhaps prove impossible , and would certainly be a very useless labour , to attempt to describe them all .
The positions and motions of the hands are so numerous , and may be so exceedingly varied by minute changes , that it would perhaps prove impossible , and would certainly be a very useless labour , to attempt to describe them all .
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These instructions shew in a stronger light , than perhaps more direct evidence could afford , the extreme inconvenience of the Roman toga , and the difficulty or almost impossibility in such a dress of using the left hand to any good ...
These instructions shew in a stronger light , than perhaps more direct evidence could afford , the extreme inconvenience of the Roman toga , and the difficulty or almost impossibility in such a dress of using the left hand to any good ...
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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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