Canon XLII.
THe Hands gently set toge∣ther by a sweet approach, causing a low sound by their
Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation : with types, or chyrograms, a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument / by J.B. ...
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- Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation : with types, or chyrograms, a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument / by J.B. ...
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- J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.
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- London :: Printed by Tho. Harper, and are to be sold by R. Whitaker ...,
- 1644.
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- Sign language -- Early works to 1800.
- Nonverbal communication.
- Gesture.
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"Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation : with types, or chyrograms, a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument / by J.B. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30105.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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light encounter or complosion, make an opportune cadence of Action, to attend the close or pe∣riod of a sentence.
This Action was commended by the practice of Proaeresius that accomplished Oratour, of old time, the Master of brave speech, and grace in ready speaking, who publickly pleaded his cause at Athens to the great admiration of all men, of whom one of his Auditours, Eunapius, thus speaks: Proaeresius orditur flumen quodaam orationis singu∣los periodos pulsu manum finiens.