Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons ; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryJ. Johnson, 1808 - 1120 من الصفحات An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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الصفحة v
... render this Book singularly useful , and to deserve a conti- nuance of that approbation with which it has been already received , has induced the Editor to enlarge and improve it in the present , as well as in every preceding edition ...
... render this Book singularly useful , and to deserve a conti- nuance of that approbation with which it has been already received , has induced the Editor to enlarge and improve it in the present , as well as in every preceding edition ...
الصفحة vii
... render his voice louder , without altering the key ; and shall always be able to give most body , most persevering force of sound , to that pitch of voice , to which in con- versation we are accustomed . Whereas , by setting out on our ...
... render his voice louder , without altering the key ; and shall always be able to give most body , most persevering force of sound , to that pitch of voice , to which in con- versation we are accustomed . Whereas , by setting out on our ...
الصفحة viii
... render every discourse in- sipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of speaking too fast is much more common , and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it has grown up into a habit , few errors are more difficult to be ...
... render every discourse in- sipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of speaking too fast is much more common , and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it has grown up into a habit , few errors are more difficult to be ...
الصفحة ix
... rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning left often ambiguous . If the emphasis be placed wrong , we per- vert and ... render every thing which he says of high importance , by a multitude of strong emphases , we soon learn to pay ...
... rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning left often ambiguous . If the emphasis be placed wrong , we per- vert and ... render every thing which he says of high importance , by a multitude of strong emphases , we soon learn to pay ...
الصفحة x
... render pauses graceful and expressive , they must not only be made in the right place , but also be ac- companied ... renders this always sensible , and in some measure compels us to observe it in our pronunciation . In blank verse ...
... render pauses graceful and expressive , they must not only be made in the right place , but also be ac- companied ... renders this always sensible , and in some measure compels us to observe it in our pronunciation . In blank verse ...
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