An Instructive Elocution

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Excerpt from An Instructive Elocution: Designed Especially for Teachers and Private Learners The apology which is usually offered for issuing a new book, is, to supply a long-felt want. It is quite probable, however, that the want, in most instances, is long-felt only by the author himself. It is a legitimate object of an author, to enable others to know what their wants are. Had our most eminent authors waited until there was a popular demand for their works, none of our best books would have ever been written. When'the Decalogue was first written on tables of stone, there was no long-felt want for a code of morals, yet nothing else was more needed. The writer is well aware that bundles of good, bad, and indifferent literature, are already very numerous. He is also aware that these bundles of literature are of but little value to the individual learner, so far as instruction in elocution is concerned. Any work which con tains a plain, concise and practical system of elocutionary instruction, is of special value; and it is believed that such works are exceedingly rare. Any effort however humble, which is intended to aid the student of elocution, ought to meet with encouragement. For nothing is more apparent than the need of improvement in elocution. Few per sons read well, and still fewer speak well. Even among teachers the need of elocutionary instruction and discipline is miserably apparent. No other branch so imperatively demands to be taught by example. Hence, pupils generally read about as well as their teachers, but no better. Of course, we here speak of the art of elocution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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