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Bell's Standard Elocutionist ... New edition ... enlarged and improved

David Charles Bell · 1873 · Scanned text

280,685 words · about 19 h 39 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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About this book

Author
David Charles Bell
Language
English
Published
1873
Length
280,685 words · about 19 h 39 min
Sections
4 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (4)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Preface about 6 h 4 min
  3. Prologue about 1 min
  4. Epilogue about 13 h 33 min

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Front matter

relative positions op the hand and arm ih MOTION.— (See Par. 104-6, and Page vi.) Arm rising— Hand hanging downwards. Arm falling — Hand pointing upwards. Arm moving outwards— Hand pointing across the body. Arm moving inwards— Hand pointing outwards. [Bell's Standakd Elocutionist.] BELL'S STANDAKD ELOCUTIONIST. PRINCIPLES AND EXERCISES, (FROM " ELOCUTIONARY MANUAL j ") FOLLOWED BY A COPIOUS SELECTION OF EXTRACTS IN PROSE AKD POETRY, CLASSIFIED AND ADAPTED FOR READING AND RECITATION BY DAVID CHARLES BELL, PROFESSOR OF ELOCUTION AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, DUBLIN', Author of "The Theory of Elocution" "The Class-Book of Poetry," __c., _te. AND ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL, F.E.I.S.', .fee, LATE LECTURER ON ELOCUTION IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, Inventor of " Visible Speech," __, _.. Ctncntg-fourtfj TOjausan.'. .

New Edition, greatly enlarged and improved. BELFAST: WILLIAM MULLAN. 1873. Wholesale Agents for this Work : — Simfikin, Marshall, &* Co., .... London. Hamilton, Adams, &= Co., .... London. Sampson Low, Son, &* Marston, . . London. Jolui Menzies 6° Co., Edinburgh. Porteous Brothers, ..... Glasgow. IV. H. Smith & Son, Dublin. Philip, Son, & Nephew, .... Liverpool. John Heywood, • . • Manchester. Lewis Smith, /£'.-. • f • • Aberdeen. Dawson Brother^f. . . ?. . . Montreal. Robert Miller, 7 . . . . . Montreal. Chewitt ct0 Co., Toronto. George Robertson, Melbourne. Campbell 6° Son, Toronto.

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