The Art of Extempore Speaking : Hints for the Pulpit, the Senate And the Bar
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[We hoj^e we shall be forgiven for these details of the interior, these private manage- ments of an orator : we think them more useful to show how to contrive than the didactics of teaching would be ; they are the contrivances of the craft, secrets of the workshop. Be- sides, we are not writing for adepts, but for novices ; and these wiU be better helped by CONCEPTION OF THE SUBJECT. 163 practical advice, and by the results of positive experience, than by general rules or by specu- lations.] Ab...ove aU, then, you must decide with the utmost clearness what it is you are going tc speak upon. Many orators are too vague in this; and it is an original vice which makes itself felt in their whole labour, and, later, in their audience. Nothing is worse than vague- ness in a discourse ; it produces obscurity, dif- fiiseness, rigmarole, and wearisomeness. The hearer does not cling to a speaker who talks without knowing what he would say, and who, undertaking to guide him, seems to be ignorant whither he is going.
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