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. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... Anti-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 lectures, you will remember, bore reference to the Colonial period, or what I ...
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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. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... Anti-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 lectures, 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 Lawyers." 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. Johnson in literature, and under a similar control in what related to oratory. So that, after all, there was substituted a somewhat artificial style. And when, coming down later than the period I actually designated, I portrayed one or two ripened specimens of that tendency toward the reign of the lawyers and described two of the greatest among them at that period--Webster and Choate--I recognized in both of those, that there was to some extent an overladen style in the one and in the other a style often heavy, though rising at its highest points to extraordinary power. We are now to contemplate a period when, from obvious influences, there came a modification of this more ornate style; a more direct, more simple and consequently more powerful form of...
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Very Good Plus. Limited Edition. This copy is #345 of 500. These were lectures given at Western Reserve University under the auspices of the Western Reserve Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Illustrated with small ink drawings. Edges untrimmed. Printed on Ruisdael hand-made paper. designed by Clyde Erroll Horton. Higginson covers Colonial oratory, the reign of the clergy, the reign of the lawyers, and lyceum orators.
