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Lessons In Elocution: Or, A Selection Of Pieces, In Prose And Verse, For The Improvement Of Youth In Reading And Speaking. To Which Are Prefixed, Elements Of Gesture. Illustrated By Four Plates; And Rules For Expressing With Propriety The Various Passions, &C. Of The Mind. Also, An Appendix, by William Scott. This nineteenth?century instructional manual trains schoolboys and instructors in elocution, blending rhetoric with moral education. It presents a structured program beginning with gesture and posture (Elements of Gesture), including plate?supported guidance on stance, diagonal arm positions, open hands, and synchronized movements, emphasizing simplicity, grace, naturalness, and the teacher's modeling. It contrasts acting with reading, arguing for clear, forceful reading and declamatory passages to develop pronunciation and expression, while tolerating vigorous delivery in proper contexts. The volume also offers practical rules for elocution (I–VI) and guidance on tone, cadence, pauses, vocal range, and alignment of voice with look and gesture to convey emotion, while warning against over?ornamentation. A substantial section (Lessons in Reading) provides maxims, fables, biographical sketches, and moral anecdotes to train comprehension, articulation, emphasis, and virtuous discernment, using classical and dramatic excerpts to model ethical speech. Overall, it assembles a pedagogical system linking virtue and eloquence for public speaking and character formation.
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