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Substance of a Discourse on Elocution: Delivered Before the Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers, at Their Fifth Annual ... Cincinnati, October, 1835
Excerpt from Substance of a Discourse on Elocution
The low state of elocution amongst us is universally admitted. It is agreed, on all hands, that the style of speaking prevalent in our legislative and popular assemblies, at the bar, in the pulpit, the chair of professorship, and among the students of all our seminaries of learning, is, so far as respects delivery, faulty in the extreme. In the humbler branch of reading, there are deficiencies quite as ?agrant, and much more nume rous. The English language is greatly impaired  almost de stroyed by the majority ofxthose who employ it; and very few of the rest are accustomed to give to it all the perspicuity, energy, and elegance of which it is susceptible.
The low state of elocution amongst us is universally admitted. It is agreed, on all hands, that the style of speaking prevalent in our legislative and popular assemblies, at the bar, in the pulpit, the chair of professorship, and among the students of all our seminaries of learning, is, so far as respects delivery, faulty in the extreme. In the humbler branch of reading, there are deficiencies quite as ?agrant, and much more nume rous. The English language is greatly impaired  almost de stroyed by the majority ofxthose who employ it; and very few of the rest are accustomed to give to it all the perspicuity, energy, and elegance of which it is susceptible.
28 pages, Paperback
Published August 24, 2018
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