7.  Particularly observe the judicial clearness of this example.  Note the felicitous use of language.

8.  Read this aloud for oratorical style.  Fit the words to your lips.  Engrave the passage on your mind by frequent repetition.

9.  Study this passage for its profound and prophetic thought.  Render it aloud in slow and dignified style.

10.  Practise this for its sustained power.  The words “let him” should be intensified at each repetition, and the phrase “and show me the man” brought out prominently.

11.  Study this for its beauty and variety of language.  Meditate upon it as a model of what a speaker should be.

12.  Note the strength in the repeated phrase “I will never say.”  Observe the power, nobility and courage manifest throughout.  The closing sentence should be read in a deeply earnest tone and at a gradually slower rate.

13.  Read this for its purity and strength of style.  Note the effective use of question and answer.

14.  Study this passage for its common sense and exalted thought.  Note how each sentence is rounded out into fulness, until it is imprest upon your memory.

Extracts for Study

SPECIMENS OF ELOQUENCE

A Study in Climax

1.  My lords, these are the securities which we have in all the constituent parts of the body of this House.  We know them, we reckon them, rest upon them, and commit safely the interests of India and of humanity into your hands.  Therefore it is with confidence that, ordered by the Commons,

I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, whose parliamentary trust he has betrayed.

I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored.

I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights, and liberties he has subverted, whose properties he has destroyed, whose country he has laid waste and desolate.

I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice which he has violated.

I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured, and opprest in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.—­Impeachment of Warren Hastings: EDMUND BURKE.

Suggestions to the Public Speaker

2.  I am now requiring not merely great preparation while the speaker is learning his art but after he has accomplished his education.  The most splendid effort of the most mature orator will be always finer for being previously elaborated with much care.  There is, no doubt, a charm in extemporaneous elocution, derived from the appearance of artless, unpremeditated effusion, called forth by the occasion, and so adapting itself to its exigencies, which may compensate the manifold defects incident to this kind of composition: