A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected, and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out ... To which are Added, Outlines of Composition, Or, Plain Rules for Writing Orations, and Speaking Them in Public ...

J. Johnson ... J. Walker ... G. Wilkie, and J. Robinson ... and G. Robinson ... and T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 - 373 pages

Page	xiii

Wavering and uncertain Pronunciation of the Vowels under	8

Suppressing the Sound of the Final Consonants	14

Not sounding H after	20

Sound	26

How to pronounce the Adjective Possessive mine	33

How to pronounce the Participial Termination ing	36

Rhetorical Punctuation	48

Rules for Pausing	57

Audible Punctuation	71

The different States of the Voice	78

Compact SentenceDirect Period with Two Conjunctions	83

Ortho�pial Figures or Figures of Pronunciation	90

The Exclamation	96

The Contrast	104

The Question and Answer	112

The Antecedent	118

The Period and the Method of forming a Cadence	124

On Emphatic Force	130

On the different Forces of Emphatic Words	136

Utility of understanding the different Inflexions and different	146

Of the Accent and Emphasis of Verse	154

How e and o when apostrophised are to be pronounced	160

On Blank Verse	170

Prosopopaia	231

Modulation and Management of the Voice	237

Rules for Gesture	244

On Style Perspicuity and Precision	255

On the Harmony of Sentences	271

The general Characters of StyleDiffuse concise c	278

Directions for forming a proper Style	284

Of the Distribution of Oratory	295

Of external Topics	305

Of the State of a Controversy	316

Of Arguments suited to Demonstrative Discourses	324

Of Arguments suited to Deliberative Discourses	334

Of Arguments suited to Judicial Discourses	342

Of the Character and Address of an Orator	352

Of the Passions 691	361

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Title	A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected, and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out ... To which are Added, Outlines of Composition, Or, Plain Rules for Writing Orations, and Speaking Them in Public ...
Author	John Walker
Publisher	J. Johnson ... J. Walker ... G. Wilkie, and J. Robinson ... and G. Robinson ... and T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807
Original from	The British Library
Digitized	31 Aug 2017
Length	373 pages

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