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PHYSICAL GYMNASTICS 17 ATTITUDE 17 Standing Position 17 Speaker's Position 18 Sitting Position 18 Changing Position 18 Poise of Body 18 Rising on Toes 19 Holding the Book 19 Note on Attitude 19 CHEST EXPANSION 19 Active and Passive Chest 19 Arms at Side 19 Fore-arm Vertical 20...
PHYSICAL GYMNASTICS 17 ATTITUDE 17 Standing Position 17 Speaker's Position 18 Sitting Position 18 Changing Position 18 Poise of Body 18 Rising on Toes 19 Holding the Book 19 Not...
2. PART II.VOCAL GYMNASTICS 22 BREATHING 22 Abdominal 22 Costal 23 Dorsal 23 Puffing Breath 23 Puffing Breath, with pause 23 Puffing Breath, breathe between 23 Holding the Breath 24 TONE 2...
3. PART III.ELOCUTION 36 PLEASANT QUALITY 36 ARTICULATION 38 Syllables 38 Words 38 Accent 38 Phrases 39 Emphasis 39 Sentences 39 FULNESS AND POWER 42 INFLECTION 44 Major Rising 45 Major Fal...
4. PART IV.Rev. Dr. Hall of New York says, "There is one accomplishment in particular which I would earnestly recommend to you: cultivate assiduously the ability to read well. I stop to pa...
5. PART ONE.You find it so in the art of playing the piano: the fingers must be made nimble, and the wrists elastic, before any thing else can be well done. In the art of singing you have t...
6. PART TWO.You have no need to take any special exercise in walking for the ordinary purposes of life; but, if you wished to be a "walkist," you would need special practice to train and de...
7. PART THREE.If you have faithfully practised Parts One and Two, you have gained some control of voice, and can now begin elocution, or expression of thought and feeling. In each of the shor...
8. PART FOUR.[Sidenote: _Practice._] If you have practised and studied the previous pages of this book, you will have gained an elementary knowledge of the science of elocution. Carlyle says...
9. Part Three.)[Sidenote: _Slovenly speech._] Slovenly speech is a defect, and is opposite in kind and effect from the above. The consonants are not pronounced; and, to remedy it, practise to...