. Practical speaking, as taught in Yale college. e the exercise agreeable, butto promote natural and healthful habits of mind. In this waymay be prevented an evil described by Tacitus, in his tract onthe causes of the decay of eloquence among the Romans;among which he enumerates the custom adopted by oratoricalstudents, of getting up theatrical trials, and practising enthusi-astic declamation in defense of injured innocence, and againstfancied tyrants and oppressors. By this process, a false andempty show of passion became established in place of a livingeloquence. Genuine eloquence can only b
. Practical speaking, as taught in Yale college. e the exercise agreeable, butto promote natural and healthful habits of mind. In this waymay be prevented an evil described by Tacitus, in his tract onthe causes of the decay of eloquence among the Romans;among which he enumerates the custom adopted by oratoricalstudents, of getting up theatrical trials, and practising enthusi-astic declamation in defense of injured innocence, and againstfancied tyrants and oppressors. By this process, a false andempty show of passion became established in place of a livingeloquence. Genuine eloquence can only be cultivated by a perseveringself-development and discipline, not only of the imagination,but of the whole character. This subject, however, has moreconnexion with the study of composition, than with that of de-livery, and belongs rather to rhetoric than to elocution. Elo-quence in delivery, cannot exist without eloquence in thethoughts delivered. All that delivery can do, is to afford anadequate presentation of thoughts; it cannot supply Hp * o , *. ?* A ^&u o «
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