The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice, with a Rhetorical Notation, Illustrating Inflection, Emphasis, and Modulation; and a Course of Rhetorical Exercises ... |
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... slide over unaccented vowels Cautions CHAP . III . INFLECTIONS RULE I. RULE II . RULE III . RULE IV . Description of ... Falling Inflection RULE VII . Of the Indirect Question and its Answer RULE VIII . The language of Authority . Of ...
... slide over unaccented vowels Cautions CHAP . III . INFLECTIONS RULE I. RULE II . RULE III . RULE IV . Description of ... Falling Inflection RULE VII . Of the Indirect Question and its Answer RULE VIII . The language of Authority . Of ...
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... falling inflection turns the voice downwards , or ends lower than it begins . It is heard in the answer to a question ; as , No ; I shall go tomorrow . As the whole doctrine of inflections depends on these two simple slides of the voice ...
... falling inflection turns the voice downwards , or ends lower than it begins . It is heard in the answer to a question ; as , No ; I shall go tomorrow . As the whole doctrine of inflections depends on these two simple slides of the voice ...
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... falling , and ends with the rising slide ; as , I may go to - morrow , though I cannot go today . They tell us to be moderate ; but they , they , are to revel in profusion . " On the words marked in these examples , there is a signifi ...
... falling , and ends with the rising slide ; as , I may go to - morrow , though I cannot go today . They tell us to be moderate ; but they , they , are to revel in profusion . " On the words marked in these examples , there is a signifi ...
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... falling after it . EXAMPLES . Shall I come to you with a ród — or in lòve ? The baptism of John , was it from heaven ... slide before it , and the falling after ; and then the question is , not whether he will go with- in two days , but ...
... falling after it . EXAMPLES . Shall I come to you with a ród — or in lòve ? The baptism of John , was it from heaven ... slide before it , and the falling after ; and then the question is , not whether he will go with- in two days , but ...
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... slide , but not always , as some respectable Teach- ers have maintained . " Thou shalt not kill ; " Thou shalt not stèal ; ' -are negative precepts , in which the falling slide must be used ; and the simple particle no , with the ...
... slide , but not always , as some respectable Teach- ers have maintained . " Thou shalt not kill ; " Thou shalt not stèal ; ' -are negative precepts , in which the falling slide must be used ; and the simple particle no , with the ...
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