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an /, his o is a u. Surely a very little at- 
tention would have corre&ed this conftant 
impropriety. 
Proper emphafis will depend principally on 
a perfect comprehenfion of your author's 
defign, and on a clear difcrimination of the 
words which he meant to be emphatically 
exprefied: without this difcrimination, you 
will constantly pervert his meaning, and the 
fined competitions will lofe their effect. 
The beft means of acquiring the habit, the 
art, of emphatic expreflion, is to read aloud, 
repeatedly and flovvly, the orations of De- 
mofthenes and Cicero, in the original Greek 
and Latin j to ftudy them inquifitely as you 
proceed ; to tranflate parts of them into your 
native language; to read that tranilation to 
your aflbciates, and to mark the effect. 
Melody and pitch of voice. A fweet toned 
voice is, doubtlefs, a very valuable gift from 
Nature ; but, in its natural ftate, it is vox et 
prater ea nibih It is a fine Stradevarius in the 
hands of a Crowdero. The organs which 
produce the human voice, form a mufical 
inftrument, made by that Divine hand, 
whofe works no art can rival. Nature alfo 
gave us diamonds; but (he left them for Art 
to polifli. By conftantly playing upon a 
mufical 
