The English Reader; Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers: Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; to Improve Their Language and Sentiments; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingEdward Little & Company, 1811 - 254 страници |
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... just the fame accent in reading , as in common discourse . Many perfons err in this respect . When they read to others , and with folemnity , they pronounce the fyllables in a differ- ent manner from what they do at other times . They ...
... just the fame accent in reading , as in common discourse . Many perfons err in this respect . When they read to others , and with folemnity , they pronounce the fyllables in a differ- ent manner from what they do at other times . They ...
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... just conception of the force and spirit of the fen- timents which he is to pronounce . For to lay the emphafis with exact propriety , is a conftant exercise of good fenfe and attention . It is far from being an inconfiderable attainment ...
... just conception of the force and spirit of the fen- timents which he is to pronounce . For to lay the emphafis with exact propriety , is a conftant exercise of good fenfe and attention . It is far from being an inconfiderable attainment ...
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... just` , and laudable , are naturally feasoned and prepared for pain and mifery . " " I am perfuaded , that neither death ' , not life` ; nor an- gels ' , nor principalities ' , nor powers` ; nor things prefent ' , nor things to come ...
... just` , and laudable , are naturally feasoned and prepared for pain and mifery . " " I am perfuaded , that neither death ' , not life` ; nor an- gels ' , nor principalities ' , nor powers` ; nor things prefent ' , nor things to come ...
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... just expiring the laft adieu . Never adventure on too near an approach to what is evil . Familiarize not yourfelf with it , in the flightest instances , without fear . Liften with reverence to every reprehenfion of conscience ; and ...
... just expiring the laft adieu . Never adventure on too near an approach to what is evil . Familiarize not yourfelf with it , in the flightest instances , without fear . Liften with reverence to every reprehenfion of conscience ; and ...
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... just begun to climb the hill , thought themfelves not far from the top ; but as they proceeded , new hills were continually rifing to their view ; and the fummit of the higheft they could before difcern feemed but the foot of another ...
... just begun to climb the hill , thought themfelves not far from the top ; but as they proceeded , new hills were continually rifing to their view ; and the fummit of the higheft they could before difcern feemed but the foot of another ...
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