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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: SECTION III. Rules for expressing, with propriety, the principal Passions and Humors, which occur in Reading, or public Speaking. EVERY part of the human frame Contributes to express the passions anel emotions of the mind, and to show in general its present state. The head is sometimes erected, sometimes hung down, sometimes drawn suddenly back with an air of disdain, sometimes shows by a nod a particular person, or object: gives assent, or denial, by different motions '; threatens by one sort of movement, approves by another, and expresses suspicion by a third. The arms are sometimes both thrown out, sometimes the right alone. Sometimes they are lifted up as high as the face, to express wonder; sometimes held out before the breast, to show fear; spread forth with the hands open to express desire or affection; the hands clapped in surprise, and in sudden joy and grief; the right hand clenched, and the arms brandished, to threaten; the two arms set akimbo, to look big, and express contempt or courage. With the hands we solicit, we refuse, we promise, we threaten, we dismiss, we invite, we entreat, we express aversion, fear, doubting, denial, asking, affirmation, negation, joy, grief, confession, penitence. With the hands we describe and point out all circumstances of time, place, and manner of what we relate; we excite the passions of others, and sooth them; we approve and disapprove, permit or prohibit, admire or despise. The hands serve us instead of many sorts of words, and where the language of the tongue is unknown, that of the hands is understood, being universal, and common to all nations. The legs advance, or retreat, to express desire or aversion, love or hatred, courage or fear, and produce exultation, or leaping in sudden joy; and the stamping of the fo...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217498371 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021749837X |
| Weight | 1.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.02 In |
| List Price | $23.28 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 460 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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