Analytic Elocution: Containing Studies, Theoretical and Practical, of Expressive Speech (Classic Reprint)

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The theory and practice of a true method should develop the vocal powers, side by side with the growth of the mind, and by the time the student has reached the high schools and institutions of advanced learning, he should be able to deliver his essays and papers with the same proficiency that he displays in their verbal or written form.

The scholar, in gaining control and use of the voice in the expres sion of all the emotions, unconsciously to himself, overcomes that constrained, awkward bearing; which in many cases arises from the conviction that he does not know how to do that which is required of him.

I do not consider that the treatment of the subject in the present manual is an exhaustive one. The art is, it may be said, in its infancy, and certain principles require elaboration which in time will be universally understood.

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