Excerpt from The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces; Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence
And, indeed, if he had not judged this highly necefl Iary for an orator, he would fcarcely have taken fo much pains in correcting thofe natural defec'ts, under which he laboured at firfi, in order to acquire it. For he had both a weak voice, and likewife an impediment in his fpeech, fo that he could not pronounce diltinétly fome particular letters. The former of which defects he conquered, partly by (peaking as loud as he could upon the fhore, when the fea roared and was boitier ous; and partly, by pronouncing long periods as he walked up hill; both of which methods contributed to firengthen his voice. And he found means toren der his pronunciation more clear and articulate, by the help of fome little {tones put under 1113 tongue. Nor was he leis careful in endeavouring to gain the habit of a becoming and decent gefiure; for which purpofe he ufed to pronounce his difcourfes alone before a large glaisl And becaufe he had an ill cufiom of ~drawing up his {houlders when he (poke, to amend that, he ufed to place them under a fword, which hung over him with the point downwards.
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