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Excerpt from An American Selection, of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth; To Which Are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindLet each syllable and the letters which compose it, be pronounced with a clear voice, without whining, drawl ing, lisping, stammering, mumbling in the throat, or speaking through the nose. Avoid equally a dull draw} ing habit, and too much rapidity of pronunciation: for each of these faults destroys a distinct articulation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from An American Selection, of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth; To Which Are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindLet each syllable and the letters which compose it, be pronounced with a clear voice, without whining, drawl ing, lisping, stammering, mumbling in the throat, or speaking through the nose. Avoid equally a dull draw} ing habit, and too much rapidity of pronunciation: for each of these faults destroys a distinct articulation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from An American Selection of Lessons, in Reading and Speaking, Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth: To Which Are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindLadouce is a falling of the voice in pronouncing the closing syllable of a period.' This ought not to be uniform; but dif ferent at the close of different sentences.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.