The Elements of Reading and Oratory (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Elements of Reading and Oratory

Such are the exceptions which may be taken to the most systematic and elaborate writers on elocution: writers of the higher aim, and the more solid worth. Of others, it is scarcely necessary to speak; for they attempt rather to mitigate the 'evils of the existing method of instruction, than to remove them by introducing another. Their observations are local, iso lated, special: not without value in the particular instances to which they apply; but apart as they are from principles, and incapable of generaliza tion, they merely supersede the incidental and arbitrary dogmas of the instructor.

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