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mufical inftrument, we not only improve 
its tone, but we gradually acquire that de- 
gree of dexterity which is necefTary to give 
it a complete effect. So it is with the hu- 
man voice. You mufl praclife with the 
unremitting afiiduity of a young mufician, 
until you have familiarized every poflible 
modulation. 
Energy in fpeaking, like the mercury in 
the barometer, fhould rife and fall with the 
weight of your fubject; and your proper ufe 
of this power will depend on your clearly 
understanding the comparative importance 
of its feveral parts. 
Animation will always be in a direct ratio 
of your own feelings. Like two mufical 
firings in perfect unifon, your own heart 
muft vibrate, before thofe of your audience 
can feel. 
Graceful attitude and a5lion> may feem to 
be the work of Nature. It is evidently a 
miftake. Nature may give fine features and 
limbs fafliioned in her beft mould, to a 
clown j but, whoever beheld a clown {land- 
ing in a graceful attitude, or raife his arm 
like Veftrisl It is evident that gracefulnefs 
in reading, in fpeaking, and in acting, is 
incompatible with the leaft degree of em- 
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