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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: nius or his master's instructions, build some other action upon it, which may, in time, give it additional force and variety. Thus what seemed either unworthy the attention, or too difficult for the execution, of others, the author of the present publication has ventured to attempt. A conviction of the necessity of teaching some system of action, and the abundant success of the present system, in one of the most respectable academies near London, has determined him to publish it, for the use of such seminaries as make English pronunciation a part of their discipline. It may not be useless to observe, that boys should be classed in this, as in every other kind of instruction, according to their abilities; that a class should not consist of more than ten; that about eight or ten lines of some .speech should be read first by the teachers, then by the boy who reads best, aud then by the rest in order, all having a book of the same kind, and all reading the same portion. This portion they must be ordered to get by heart against the next lesson; and then the first boy must speak it, standing at some distance before the rest, in the manner directed in the Plates; the second boy must succeed him, and so on tilt they have all spoken. After which another portion must be read them, which they must read and speak in the same manner as before.? When they have gone through a speech in this manner by portions, the two or three first boys may be ordered, a- gainst the next lesson, to speak the whole speech; the next lesson, two or three more, and so on to the rest. This will -excite emulation, and give the teacher on opportunity of ranking them according to their merit. SECTION III. Rules for expressing, with propriety) the principal Passions and Humors, which occur in Reading, or p...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217012997 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021701299X |
| Weight | 1.51 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.05 In |
| List Price | $22.81 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 470 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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