Excerpt from Elocution and Oratory: Giving a Thorough Treatise on the Art of Reading and SpeakingThe primary Object. In the preparation of this work, was to arrange in a single volume, the principles of vocal culture, and style OF delivery now used by the best elocutionists of the day and, at the same time, to present a work for reading and for practice, that would contain the choicest gems Of both ancient and modern literature.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.