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Every man's experience quickly convinces him both of the necessity of making himself audible by issuing a sufficient quantity of voice , ard also of so managing his voice as to accomplish this object with the greatest facility ...
Every man's experience quickly convinces him both of the necessity of making himself audible by issuing a sufficient quantity of voice , ard also of so managing his voice as to accomplish this object with the greatest facility ...
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M. Dubroca expresses the difficulty of forming a system of gesture with sufficient force . But in the latter observations he has failed to perceive , that in the various gestures of different men , there is sufficient similarity to give ...
M. Dubroca expresses the difficulty of forming a system of gesture with sufficient force . But in the latter observations he has failed to perceive , that in the various gestures of different men , there is sufficient similarity to give ...
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the initial letter , some letter in the name is adopted as its symbol , sufficiently remarkable , so as to be easily ... But these literary contrivances , though they very considerably extended the notation , were not sufficient .
the initial letter , some letter in the name is adopted as its symbol , sufficiently remarkable , so as to be easily ... But these literary contrivances , though they very considerably extended the notation , were not sufficient .
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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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