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... Reading and Speaking - Testimony of the late Rev. A. S. Thelwall - Quotation from the Rev. J. Howlett's Work on Reading the Liturgy " - " The Great Secret " of Respiration , and the history of its transmission - Extracts from the recent ...
... Reading and Speaking - Testimony of the late Rev. A. S. Thelwall - Quotation from the Rev. J. Howlett's Work on Reading the Liturgy " - " The Great Secret " of Respiration , and the history of its transmission - Extracts from the recent ...
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... Reading and Speaking - Illustrations of Different Keys in Modulation - General Rules for the Modulation of the Voice - Imitative Modu- lation - What is meant by it - Views of Lord Kames in reference to Imitative Modulation ...
... Reading and Speaking - Illustrations of Different Keys in Modulation - General Rules for the Modulation of the Voice - Imitative Modu- lation - What is meant by it - Views of Lord Kames in reference to Imitative Modulation ...
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... Reading of the Bible - How it ought to be read - Reading the Church Services and Prayers- Prose Readings generally - Dramatic Reading - Use of Referential Gesture 261 276 LECTURE XIX . of PAGE Public Speaking - Principal requisites X ...
... Reading of the Bible - How it ought to be read - Reading the Church Services and Prayers- Prose Readings generally - Dramatic Reading - Use of Referential Gesture 261 276 LECTURE XIX . of PAGE Public Speaking - Principal requisites X ...
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... READING AND SPEAKING , KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON , EVENING CLASSES DEPARTMENT , BEGS to announce that he lectures and gives practical instruction in Public Reading and Speaking to his classes at King's College , every Tuesday and Friday ...
... READING AND SPEAKING , KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON , EVENING CLASSES DEPARTMENT , BEGS to announce that he lectures and gives practical instruction in Public Reading and Speaking to his classes at King's College , every Tuesday and Friday ...
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... reading aloud , while there are a thousand wrong ways , the man will do well to learn the right way . And if the agreeable impression produced by an agreeable voice , manner , and person can conduce to the right impression of truth ...
... reading aloud , while there are a thousand wrong ways , the man will do well to learn the right way . And if the agreeable impression produced by an agreeable voice , manner , and person can conduce to the right impression of truth ...
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Page 147 - All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Page 139 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven ; You may as well do any thing most hard, As seek to soften that, — than which what's harder?
Page 151 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 162 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 152 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. I was born free as Caesar ; so were you : We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he...
Page 145 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 149 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man...
Page 120 - twixt heaven and earth Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal Witness against us to damnation ! How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done...
Page 153 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark...
Page 165 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.