... much in the larguiiage itself as in the fact that speaking is not taught in a systematic matnner on scientific principles. People learn sinlging, but speaking is supposed to come by nature, and the speaking voice is therefore left to be formed by acci- dent ...

... circumstances fitted to call forth strong passion they speak passionately, and many lines of eloquence and of poetical feeling will be found in these plays. The dragntis personce speak poetically, but they speak also consistently with their position; and it is ...

... own practice and observa- tion to speak very positively on this point. Sir James Paget, especially, has performed the operation of excision of the tongue on six individuals, all of whom were able afterwards to speak well and quickly; the lingual sounds ...

... Channel Islands the same reasons, apart from all linguistic considerations, exist for speaking and studying English instead of French which existed in Alsace for speaking and studying French instead of German. French is so much simpler than German, and English ...

... chiefly remarkable for ?? in which the composer seems to have anticipated the development of his genius. The annotated programme speaks of it as characterized by magnificent pathos, and s0 it is ; while at the same time the movement shows that original and ...

... friars speaking as such men would naturally speak; because in his plays people go to confession, talk of holy church and ghostly fathers; because he makes Isabella, his female masterpiece, a nun ; because the Duke, in As You Like It,' speaks of being ...

... works of others. And Sir Francis Goldsmid has particular claims, barred, we believe, solely by his own uncommon modesty, for speaking with authority upon the subject he discusses. He has been for some time at the head of the Persian telegraphs, a purely British ...

... parliamentary orator is speaking to a foregone conclusion; the result, even the numbers on division, are known beforehand. Such a speaker, therefore, has not the great end of all oratory- persuasion-to sustain him. He may be speaking over the heads of his ...

... What, again, would a child learn by being told that Spenser was full of Christianized platonism ? On page 73 Mr. Brooke speaks of some of the love poems of the latter part of the sixteenth century as possessing a passionate reality, others a quaint ...

... a new and improved edition of his useful and interesting little work upon bees and their management. He has every claim to speak with authority on the subject he has taken in hand, for he has been studying it all his life, and his life has not been a short ...

... assumes an authority which becomes offensively arrogant, nor a geniality: which becomes offensively familiar. He speaks out freely as a man speak- ing to free and reasonable men; and it is good to listen to words so delivered, whether in the particular instance ...

... asthetical r ladies. But the brightness of these pleasant things is soon inter- 1l rupted by the hint at an impending doom. Speaking of a walk on :, the Embankment taken by Sir Keith after a charming evening party, the k author remarks:- What of this morning ...