A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . only by the foot on which the body is not sup-ported, for that alone is free. Should it be required tomove the foot which supports the body (suppose theleft, in the first position of the right, Fig. 15), two mo- w ?— * I have frequently seen college students take three steps to theright, then three to the left, then three again to the right, and soon, till they had changed their position fifteen times during the delivery of a discourse which did not occupy them more than te
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . only by the foot on which the body is not sup-ported, for that alone is free. Should it be required tomove the foot which supports the body (suppose theleft, in the first position of the right, Fig. 15), two mo- w ?— * I have frequently seen college students take three steps to theright, then three to the left, then three again to the right, and soon, till they had changed their position fifteen times during the delivery of a discourse which did not occupy them more than tenminutes. And I have known a clergyman to traverse the wholelength of his pulpit twenty-three times during the delivery of a ser-mon. Such erratic movements in a public speaker are undigni-fied : they betray a want of judgment, and are exceedingly annoy-ing to an audience. An orator should keep in his place: heshould perform all the movements of his feet within the limits ofthirty-six inches square, and not be continually running about theroom as if labouring under the effects of nitrous oxide. GESTURE. 83 tions are necessary; in the first the position must bechanged to R. 2. (Fig. 16), so as to throw the weightof the body on the nght foot, then the left may bemoved as required. According to this principle, it will be found thatfrom each original position four steps ^ / may be made. (See V<^ Fig. 21 and 22.)The plan of thesteps, in the origi-nal position, is in ^\fthe centre, anddrawn larger; theplan of the steps,made from that ori-ginal position, is re-presented line of motionsof the feet, is repre- 21 sented by a line of dots, nearly of the same form whicheach foot should trace; the line of the free, or first-moving foot, is marked with a star. In the figures, itwill be observed, that from each position four stepsmay be made — the speaker may advance, retire, tra-verse, and cross. Inadvancing and tra-versing, each stepfinishes on the second
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