Excerpt from The Technique of Speech: A Guide to the Study of Diction According to the Principles of Resonance The time was ripe for the utterance. The question Of our speech has long been hover ing in the atmosphere, has indeed distinctly hummed in our collective consciousness, even voicing itself at times, albeit in discreet and tentative whispers, in the more or less stable centres Of our nascent social life. More than one pedagogic free lance has already attempted to scale the apparently impregnable barrier Of common ...
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Excerpt from The Technique of Speech: A Guide to the Study of Diction According to the Principles of Resonance The time was ripe for the utterance. The question Of our speech has long been hover ing in the atmosphere, has indeed distinctly hummed in our collective consciousness, even voicing itself at times, albeit in discreet and tentative whispers, in the more or less stable centres Of our nascent social life. More than one pedagogic free lance has already attempted to scale the apparently impregnable barrier Of common usage, be hind which - to borrow the apt simile dis claimed by Mr. James - the Andromeda Of our transplanted Speech has been entrenched by the American common school, the Ameri can newspaper, and the American Dutch man and Dago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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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