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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...against all artificial systems of Elocution;" and his Grace further declares, "that not a single instance can be found of any one that has attained, by the study of any system of instruction that has hitherto appeared, a really good delivery." Have not precisely the same arguments been used against Logic and Rhetoric, the Archbishop's favourite studies? And has he not in an able manner utterly overthrown these objections, saying in one of many passages, "We should avail ourselves of rules, as far as we can receive assistance from them, knowing that there will be always sufficient scope for genius in points for which no rules can be given"? The Article from the Edin. Bev. quoted by his Grace at p. 265 of the Appendix to the Elements of Rhetoric, says, "Sometimes men will tell us that they prefer a natural and artless eloquence, and that very diligent preparation is inconsistent with such qualities. We verily believe that this fallacy, though it lurks under an almost transparent ambiguity, is of most prejudicial consequence. Nature and art, so far from being opposed, are often the very same thing." The Reviewer might have added, "Ars celare artem." Quintilian had in his day to contend against the same objection1; for, he complains, that "there are men who think that eloquence has no need of rules, and ridicule my diligence." And he even recommends study under an actor to acquire perfect accuracy of pronunciation. From his Grace's letter it is clear he does not disapprove of elocution as such, but simply that abuse of the art which engenders pedantry, and produces a mouthing, foppish, affected style, more offensive than the most rustic or unpolished manner. I may perhaps be accused of having delivered a pi...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130642445
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130642445
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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