The English Reader; Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...: With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingM'Carty & Davis, 1826 - 316 стор. |
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Сторінка iv
... common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences with justness and facility , he will readily apply that habit , and the improvements he has made , to sentences ...
... common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences with justness and facility , he will readily apply that habit , and the improvements he has made , to sentences ...
Сторінка xi
... common conversation , and which he should generally use in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to imagine that one must take the highest pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is confounding ...
... common conversation , and which he should generally use in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to imagine that one must take the highest pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is confounding ...
Сторінка xiv
... outrunning the speaker , must render every such per- formance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common ; and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when xiv . INTRODUCTION .
... outrunning the speaker , must render every such per- formance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common ; and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when xiv . INTRODUCTION .
Сторінка xvi
... common discourse . Many persons err in this respect . When they read to others , and with solemnity , they pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they do at other times . They dwell upon them , and protract them ; they ...
... common discourse . Many persons err in this respect . When they read to others , and with solemnity , they pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they do at other times . They dwell upon them , and protract them ; they ...
Сторінка xix
... carry it far beyond any thing to be found in common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give variety to INTRODUCTION . xix .
... carry it far beyond any thing to be found in common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give variety to INTRODUCTION . xix .
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