A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . These arethe simpleprimary pos-tures of thewhole arm,which, withthe latitudeallowed, willbe found suf-ficient to re-present mostof the ordi-nary ges-tures. Bythelatitude al-lowed, thereader is tounderstandthat deflex-ion from thetrue point inreference towhich theposture isnamed: sincea near ap-proach to theproper pointis sufficientto give theposture thename of thatpoint. The collo-quial eleva-tions of thearm (Fig. 42,43, 44), are 90 ELOCUTION. less bold than the primary pos
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . These arethe simpleprimary pos-tures of thewhole arm,which, withthe latitudeallowed, willbe found suf-ficient to re-present mostof the ordi-nary ges-tures. Bythelatitude al-lowed, thereader is tounderstandthat deflex-ion from thetrue point inreference towhich theposture isnamed: sincea near ap-proach to theproper pointis sufficientto give theposture thename of thatpoint. The collo-quial eleva-tions of thearm (Fig. 42,43, 44), are 90 ELOCUTION. less bold than the primary postures. The fore arm, inthe horizontal elevation, instead of being raised to the. height of the shoulder, pointsabout as high as the middleof the breast; the hand, inthe elevated position, is notraised above the eyes; andin the position downwards,it is held but little below thewaist. In delineating the primarypostures, the boldest and mostdecided action has been cho-sen, which is suited to theepic style; because, in thisstyle, the different posturesare the most strongly discri-minated. The colloquialelevations are similar, buttamer. In them the distinctive character is, that the
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