Extempore speech, how to acquire and practice it

William Pittenger

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• Public speaking

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 6
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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j EXTEMPORE SPEECH ACQUIRE AND PRACTICE IT. National School Elocution and Oratory.Instructor in the of PHILADELPHIA: National School of Elocution and Oratory, 1416 and 1418 Chestnut Street. 1S83. Kntered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by the NationalSchool of Elocution and Oratoky, In the office ofthe Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Vranklin Printing Housb^ 321 Chestnut Street, Phil'a. ; LIIiRARY UNIVERSITY OF CAIJFORNU SANTA BARBARA PREFACE. The following pages are the result of considerable observation and experience. Fifteen years theago "writer published a small volume entitled Oratory Sacred and Secular," in which the same general views were set forth, crudely ex-though more slightly and pressed. In this work tlie recognized defects of that earlier effort are supplied and it is believed that all; speechpersons who have natural adaptation to public will here find all necessary directions to guide them by road to success.the shortest and surest expedient that a bookIt is not necessary or even itself bewhich teaches the mode of eloquence should may watch, admire, and describe theeloquent. We on the firm groundflight of an eagle while standing quite well as if flying in the air beside him." />

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National School Elocution and Oratory.Instructor in the of
PHILADELPHIA:
National School of Elocution and Oratory,
1416 and 1418 Chestnut Street.
1S83.Kntered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by the
NationalSchool of Elocution and Oratoky,
In the office ofthe Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Vranklin Printing Housb^
321 Chestnut Street,
Phil'a.;
LIIiRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CAIJFORNU
SANTA BARBARA
PREFACE.
The following pages are the result of considerable
observation and experience. Fifteen years theago
"writer published a small volume entitled Oratory
Sacred and Secular," in which the same general views
were set forth, crudely ex-though more slightly and
pressed. In this work tlie recognized defects of that
earlier effort are supplied and it is believed that all;
speechpersons who have natural adaptation to public
will here find all necessary directions to guide them by
road to success.the shortest and surest
expedient that a bookIt is not necessary or even
itself bewhich teaches the mode of eloquence should
may watch, admire, and describe theeloquent. We
on the firm groundflight of an eagle while standing
quite well as if flying in the air beside him. Noas
been made to imitate those grandeffort, therefore, has
imagination inbursts of feeling or lofty flights of
haveAvhich the popular orator may indulge ; but we
sought give such directions about practical detailsto
genius, while theas may be useful to the highest
most inbroad path toward that kind of excellence
111IV PREFACE.
faculties is clearlyIiarniony with the sjK^aker's own
marked out.
The writer is firmly convinced that more than nine-
ability totenths of those who have any fair degree of
downspeak in public will succeed best in the mode laid
in the following pages; that is, thorough preparationby
and arrangement spontaneousof thought, combined with
selection of words in the moment of discourse.
Reasons will be given for considering this the most
natural, logical, dis-impassioned, and effective mode of
course; indeed, the superior excellence of extempore
speech is now generally conceded and will require
little argument; but it is more important to encourage
the beginner by showing him just how to acquire and
practice fluent, accurate, and impressive off-hand speech
in public, with as little embarrassment or fear as if
every word were Avritten out and in plain sight. This
is the esj)ecial olyect of the following pages.