Extempore speech; how to acquire and practice it

William Pittenger

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JCA LlDKi:^ CHABLE5--i MAKMERV MARS! GIFT OF Charles A. Marsh Huto Larr^bda Digitized by tlie Internet Arcliive in 2008 witli funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.arcliive.org/details/extemporespeecliliOOpitt EXTEMPORE SPEECH ACQUIRE AND PRACTICE IT. WILLIAM PITTENGER OPAUTHOR " "Toasts," The Debater's Treasury," etc. Philadelphia The Penn Publishing Company 1899 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in tlie year 1.SS3, by the National School, of tiLOCUTiox and Oratory, in tlie office of the Librarian of Congress, at Wasliington. e - PREFACE. -_^ The following pages are the result of coiisiderablo ubscrvation and experience. Fifteen years ago the "writer published a small volume entitled Oratory ; "C Sacred and Secular," in which the same general views C were set forth, though more slightly and crudely ex- pressed. In this work the recognized thatdefects of"^ earlier effort are su})plied ; and it is believed that all persons who have; natural ada[)tation to public speech^ directions guidewill here find all necessary to them by the shortest and surest road to success.-t- is necessary or even exjiedient that a bookJ. It not ^ shouldwhich teaches the mode of eloquence itself be eloquent. We may watch, admire, and describe the^ flio;ht an whih^ standinw; on the firm groundof eaii^leo o o o^ lic, with as little embarrassment or fear as if every word were written out and in plain sight. This theis the especial object of following pages. of Contents.Table PART I.

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• Public speaking

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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JCA LlDKi:^
CHABLE5--i
MAKMERV
MARS!
GIFT OF
Charles A. Marsh
Huto Larr^bdaDigitized by tlie Internet Arcliive
in 2008 witli funding from
IVIicrosoft Corporation
http://www.arcliive.org/details/extemporespeecliliOOpittEXTEMPORE SPEECH
ACQUIRE AND PRACTICE IT.
WILLIAM PITTENGER
OPAUTHOR
" "Toasts," The Debater's Treasury," etc.
Philadelphia
The Penn Publishing Company
1899Entered, according to Act of Congress, in tlie year 1.SS3, by the
National School, of tiLOCUTiox and Oratory,
in tlie office of the Librarian of Congress, at Wasliington.e
- PREFACE.
-_^ The following pages are the result of coiisiderablo
ubscrvation and experience. Fifteen years ago the
"writer published a small volume entitled Oratory
;
"C Sacred and Secular," in which the same general views
C were set forth, though more slightly and crudely ex-
pressed. In this work the recognized thatdefects of"^
earlier effort are su})plied ; and it is believed that all
persons who have; natural ada[)tation to public speech^
directions guidewill here find all necessary to them by
the shortest and surest road to success.-t-
is necessary or even exjiedient that a bookJ. It not
^ shouldwhich teaches the mode of eloquence itself be
eloquent. We may watch, admire, and describe the^
flio;ht an whih^ standinw; on the firm groundof eaii^leo o o o^
<< quite as well as if flying in the air beside, him. Xo
^ effort, therefore, has been made to imitate those g-rand
~^ bursts of feeling or lofty imagination inflights of
_i which the popular orator may indulge ; but we have
sought to give such directions detailsabout practical
u. as mav be useful theto the highest genius, while
broad in1— path toward that kind of excellence most
c5 iiiIV PREFACE.
speaker's clearlyharmony with the own faculties is
marked out.
writer is firmly ninc-The convinced that more than
tenths of those who have anv fair degree of abilitv to
speak in public Avill succeed best in mode laid downthe
the following preparationin pages; tliat is, b}' thorough
and arrangement of thought, combined with spontaneous
selection of words in the moment of discourse.
Reasons will be given for considering this the most
natural, mode of dis-logical, impassioned, and effective
course ; indeed, the sujK'rior excellence of extempore
speech is noAV generally conceded and Avill require
little argument; but it is more im})()rtant to encourage
the beginner by sli()\viug liim just how to acquire and
fluent, acciu-atc, and inq»ressive olf-hand speechpractice
in pul>lic, with as little embarrassment or fear as if
every word were written out and in plain sight. This
theis the especial object of following pages.