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By the countenance , he says , every feeling is expressed , “ upon the countenance the hearers depend , and into it they examine before the speaker opens his lips , the countenance “ is the object of approbation or dislike , it gives a ...
By the countenance , he says , every feeling is expressed , “ upon the countenance the hearers depend , and into it they examine before the speaker opens his lips , the countenance “ is the object of approbation or dislike , it gives a ...
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“ But when you have touched “ the feelings , says he , you must not dwell long on the cause of “ distress . Since as the rhetorician Apollonius says , “ nothing u dries sooner than a tear . The observations of Aristotle upon the ...
“ But when you have touched “ the feelings , says he , you must not dwell long on the cause of “ distress . Since as the rhetorician Apollonius says , “ nothing u dries sooner than a tear . The observations of Aristotle upon the ...
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Cicero thinks that delivery alone has the “ dominion in oratory : and he says that Cn . Lentulus obtained higher estimation by this than by his eloquence : and that by “ this also C. Gracchus , when he was deploring the murder “ of his ...
Cicero thinks that delivery alone has the “ dominion in oratory : and he says that Cn . Lentulus obtained higher estimation by this than by his eloquence : and that by “ this also C. Gracchus , when he was deploring the murder “ of his ...
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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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