King's College Lectures on Elocution: Or, The Physiology and Culture of Voice and Speech, and the Expression of the Emotions by Language, Countenance, and Gesture. To which is Added a Special Lecture on the Causes and Cure of Impediments of Speech ...Trübner, 1881 - 487 páginas |
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... LECTURE ON THE CAUSES AND CURE OF IMPEDIMENTS OF SPEECH . BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF THE Introductory Course of Lectures ANNUALLY DELIVERED BY CHARLES JOHN PLUMPTRE , LECTURER ON PUBLIC READING AND SPEAKING AT KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON , IN ...
... LECTURE ON THE CAUSES AND CURE OF IMPEDIMENTS OF SPEECH . BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF THE Introductory Course of Lectures ANNUALLY DELIVERED BY CHARLES JOHN PLUMPTRE , LECTURER ON PUBLIC READING AND SPEAKING AT KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON , IN ...
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... Lecture on the Causes and Cure of Impediments of Speech ... Charles John Plumptre. at Proj Thas . G. Inceblood . 6-6-30 36 HAMILTON TERRACE , LONDON , N.W. MR . CHARLES J. PLUMPTRE , LECTURER ON PUBLIC READING AND SPEAKING , king's ...
... Lecture on the Causes and Cure of Impediments of Speech ... Charles John Plumptre. at Proj Thas . G. Inceblood . 6-6-30 36 HAMILTON TERRACE , LONDON , N.W. MR . CHARLES J. PLUMPTRE , LECTURER ON PUBLIC READING AND SPEAKING , king's ...
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... Lecture on the Causes and Cure of Impediments of Speech ... Charles John Plumptre. PREFACE . EARLY two years have elapsed since the second edition of this work was exhausted ; and I cannot but express my grateful thanks to the Press and ...
... Lecture on the Causes and Cure of Impediments of Speech ... Charles John Plumptre. PREFACE . EARLY two years have elapsed since the second edition of this work was exhausted ; and I cannot but express my grateful thanks to the Press and ...
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... Lecture on the Causes and Cure of Impediments of Speech ... Charles John Plumptre. details , may serve to refresh the memories of former students who have attended my Lectures , during the many years I have held my present office at ...
... Lecture on the Causes and Cure of Impediments of Speech ... Charles John Plumptre. details , may serve to refresh the memories of former students who have attended my Lectures , during the many years I have held my present office at ...
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... Lecture on the Causes and Cure of Impediments of Speech ... Charles John Plumptre. the words of the late Dean of Ripon ( the Rev. Hugh M'Neile , D.D. ) , who in closing a course of Lectures on the Church of England , delivered nearly ...
... Lecture on the Causes and Cure of Impediments of Speech ... Charles John Plumptre. the words of the late Dean of Ripon ( the Rev. Hugh M'Neile , D.D. ) , who in closing a course of Lectures on the Church of England , delivered nearly ...
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Página 205 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Página 185 - All this? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break ; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 178 - All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Página 184 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 203 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Página 258 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Página 177 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Página 167 - I have of late, — but wherefore I know not, — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fare, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 177 - It must be by his death: and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking.
Página 211 - Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable ; but it has been all in vain.