. A system of practical elocution and rhetorical gesture; comprising all the elements of vocal delivery, both as a science and as an art; . t Position of the Left Foot. This position is similar in every re-pP spect to the first of the right foot. Thediagram represents this position by theshading. (Fig. 3.) POSITIONS OF THE FEET. 345 Second Position of the Left Foot. This second position is also correspond-ent to the second of the right foot, as thediagram will show. (Fig. 4.) The above described positions are be-ll lieved to be the most natural and easy, and the only ones adapted to oratory. T
. A system of practical elocution and rhetorical gesture; comprising all the elements of vocal delivery, both as a science and as an art; . t Position of the Left Foot. This position is similar in every re-pP spect to the first of the right foot. Thediagram represents this position by theshading. (Fig. 3.) POSITIONS OF THE FEET. 345 Second Position of the Left Foot. This second position is also correspond-ent to the second of the right foot, as thediagram will show. (Fig. 4.) The above described positions are be-ll lieved to be the most natural and easy, and the only ones adapted to oratory. Thesustaining foot is to be firmly placed bybracing the leg, and the knee is to bestraight; the other foot is to press lightlyon the floor, and the limb to be bent in aneasy natural manner, so as to be ready forimmediate change and action. The body should be accuratelybalanced and sustained erect, not in a rigid manner, however,on the supporting limb. The speaker should face the audience,and never present himself in the fencers attitude, but with anequal and fair breast, (;equo pectore,) and a graceful move-ment of the body and Fig. 5.
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