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Title: A natural system of elocution and oratory : founded on an analysis of human constitution, considered in its three-fold nature--mental, physiological and expressional
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Hyde, Thomas A. (Thomas Alexander), 1859-1925 Hyde, William, of Cambridge
Subjects: Elocution Oratory
Publisher: New York : Fowler & Wells Co. London : L.N. Fowler & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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n oratory, although the great-est orators of ancient and modern times have not be-longed to the extempore class. We will not enter intodiscussion respecting the merits and disadvantagesof each, but examine them from our peculiar stand-point with the view of giving special directions foreach which may be of utility. In all speaking, fromthe memory or from manuscript or extempore, theobject is to convey faithfully the mental state whichagitates the mind, and according to our definition,when that is done correctly and persuasively there iseloquence. Some have maintained that a sermon ordiscourse read from a manuscript is not eloquent, butaccording to our definition, it is if it produces thedesired effect upon the mind of the listener. Reading from Manuscript if rightly performed is adepartment of oratory. The objections urged againstreading from manuscript have not always been put withreason. Because some have not the skill, gift or na-tural genius to read from manuscript so as to awaken
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