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... direct to practical excellence in paint- ing , requires an acquaintance with no small portion of the abstrusities of mathematics . The only way to over- come such difficulties , is to meet them where they are , not to endeavor to forget ...
... direct to practical excellence in paint- ing , requires an acquaintance with no small portion of the abstrusities of mathematics . The only way to over- come such difficulties , is to meet them where they are , not to endeavor to forget ...
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... ? The second point is , that we do not direct the pupil to be thinking of his elocution , at the time when he may be really engaged in public speaking . It is a point on which we insist , as strenuously as the INTRODUCTION . 17.
... ? The second point is , that we do not direct the pupil to be thinking of his elocution , at the time when he may be really engaged in public speaking . It is a point on which we insist , as strenuously as the INTRODUCTION . 17.
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... direct the attention , first to the articulation of the words , and next to the expression of the meaning . Any mispronunciation of the words , will be an offence against the conventional authority , which has settled and imposed them ...
... direct the attention , first to the articulation of the words , and next to the expression of the meaning . Any mispronunciation of the words , will be an offence against the conventional authority , which has settled and imposed them ...
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... direct equal wave of the tone . ' There is the same difference of expression between the two waves of the tone , as there was between the two simple slides of the tone . The indirect wave answers to the upward slide , in not finishing ...
... direct equal wave of the tone . ' There is the same difference of expression between the two waves of the tone , as there was between the two simple slides of the tone . The indirect wave answers to the upward slide , in not finishing ...
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... direct equal waves of the octave ; ' but like the slides of the octave , these waves are scarcely ever used , except in conversation , they need hardly be practised on for speaking . as , The two equal waves of the semitone are easily ...
... direct equal waves of the octave ; ' but like the slides of the octave , these waves are scarcely ever used , except in conversation , they need hardly be practised on for speaking . as , The two equal waves of the semitone are easily ...
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accented syllables answer atonic elements beginning called chapter Columbus compound stress concrete pitch course Demosthenes diphthongs direct equal wave discrete pitch downward slide drawling elements of expression emphasis emphatic words employed Erin Erin go bragh example explained faults feeling follow gentleman give given Grammar of Elocution hail hath heard heaven Hophni and Phinehas human voice indirect wave intonation Israel Jesus kind lengthen long quantity Lord loud meaning measure median stress merated musical musical scale nature never octave pass pause Pharisees phatic Philistines pupil quality of voice question radical pitch radical stress razors repeated require semitone sentence short simple slides sing slurred sound sounding line speaking speech subtonic elements Tables for practice thee things Thou art tone tonic elements unemphatic unequal wave upward interval upward slide utterance vanishing stress vex'd vocal elements
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