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I have had the whole of the plates more than three times delineated . The original sketches , according to my first ideas of the work , were executed by George Chinnery , Esq . now resident at Madras : but the scale adopted was too ...
I have had the whole of the plates more than three times delineated . The original sketches , according to my first ideas of the work , were executed by George Chinnery , Esq . now resident at Madras : but the scale adopted was too ...
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But this is not the whole of oratory , and the error lies in estimating it as such . It is only the dead letter , the spirit of the art is lost . That consisted in the living delivery ; and it has disappeared together with the voice ...
But this is not the whole of oratory , and the error lies in estimating it as such . It is only the dead letter , the spirit of the art is lost . That consisted in the living delivery ; and it has disappeared together with the voice ...
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Now to execute a whole play according 7 to that plan would be a work of enormous. 53 Pourquoi une collection de gestes expressifs ne seroit - elle aussi possible et aussi utile qu'une collection des desseins de coquilles , de plantes ...
Now to execute a whole play according 7 to that plan would be a work of enormous. 53 Pourquoi une collection de gestes expressifs ne seroit - elle aussi possible et aussi utile qu'une collection des desseins de coquilles , de plantes ...
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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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