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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations Of The Principles Of Reading And Public Speaking by Samuel Niles Sweet is an 1846 English-language instructional handbook on elocution and public speaking. The work presents a thorough program for improving voice, articulation, emphasis, and delivery, and treats reading aloud as a practical art essential to education, liberty, and virtue. It combines theoretical sections—on articulation, phonology, quantity, emphasis, inflection, pause, gestures, and the psychology of oratory—with practical exercises and numerous model selections drawn from classical and contemporary authors. The book is designed as a reading-book for schools, mixing prose and poetry to develop expressive reading and effective public speaking. It also includes notes and biographical sketches of authors, a sizeable collection of select pieces for exercises, and an enlarged stereotype edition with additions intended to enhance its usefulness for teachers and students alike. The text advocates a disciplined, heartfelt approach to rhetoric, grounded in moral and Christian ideals, and emphasizes reading as a vehicle for civic virtue and freedom.
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