 His delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetition that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed that without being interested in the subject one could not help being pleased...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5161838Full view - About this book
 | Jana Riess - Religion - 2002 - 408 pages
...studied acting, became such a polished orator that Philadelphia newspaperman Benjamin Franklin wrote that "without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse." Franklin, who had not intended to give a single penny to Whitefield's cause of a home for orphan boys,... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 576 pages
...every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one...with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have... | |
 | Stephen Tomkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 214 pages
...commented that: . . . every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly tuned... that, without being interested in the subject, one...with the discourse: a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. Last, but very important, the organization of... | |
 | Henry H. Mitchell - Religion - 2004 - 220 pages
...Ben Franklin, no serious churchman by any accounr, reported that \Vhitefield had a voice such that "one could not help being pleased with the discourse, a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music."37 This tonality was duplicated among many who... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 pages
...every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed that without being interested in the subject one could...with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 pages
...and those which he had often preached in the course of his travels. His delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetition that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed that without being interested in the subject one... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 330 pages
...Repetitions, that every Accent, every Modulation of Voice, was so perfectly well tun'd and well plac'd, that without being interested in the Subject, one could not help being pleas'd with the Discourse, a Pleasure of the same kind with that receiv'd from an excellent Piece... | |
 | Marcel Danesi - Social Science - 2008 - 334 pages
...Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one...with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have... | |
 | C. Samuel Storms - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 242 pages
...and those which he had often preached in the course of his travels. His delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetition, that every accent,...emphasis, every modulation of the voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being... | |
 | Jerome Dean Mahaffey - Rhetoric - 2007 - 311 pages
...every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turn'd and well plac'd, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleas'd with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that receiv'd from an excellent piece... | |
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