American Orators And Oratory Being a Report of Lectures Delivered
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(Applause. ) ANTI-SLAVERY AND LYCEUM ORATORY. An ti- Slavery and Lyceum Oratory. HAVE spoken, in the two previous lectures, of two very marked periods in the development of American oratory, and have tried to make it clear from what sources the modification came. The first of my lec tures, you will remember, bore reference to the Colonial period, or what I called "The Reign of the Clergy, " when all public speaking, like all else, was under the controlling influence of a strange ecclesiastical ...tradition. I then explained to you how, with the approach of the American Revolution, there came from various sources a transfer of this leadership, which took the form of what I ventured to call "The Rise of the Law yers. And I pointed out to you toward the close of the last lecture that, while great gain ensued in some respects from this transformation, it was not exclusively an advantage; that the habits of speech at that period were florid, overloaded with words, not simple and direct, were strongly, for instance, under the control of writers like Dr.
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