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Title: Elements of elocution:
Year: 1811 (1810s)
Authors: Walker, John, 1732-1807. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Elocution
Publisher: Philadelphia: Published by Bennett and Walton
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d thesecond. The descriptive part of this allegory is likewise very strong,and full df sublime ideas : The figure of Death ; the regal crownupon his head: his menace of Satan: his advancing to the com-bat : the outcry at his birth, are circumstances too noble to be pas-sed over in silence, and extremely suitable to this king of terrors. If the reader, from this description of the in-flections of the voice, can so far understand themas to be sensible of the great difference there isbetween suspending the voice at every comma inthe first example, and giving it a forcible down-ward direction at every colon in the two last ex-amples, it is presumed, he will sufficiently con-ceive, that this distinction of the two leading in-flections of the voice may be applied to the mostuseful purposes in the art of reading. But in or-der to give a still clearer idea, if possible, of thesetwo different inflections, we shall subjoin a sort ofscale or diagram, with an explanation of each ex-ample annexed.
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ELOCUTION. Explanation of Plate I. No. I- Did he do it voluntarily or involuntarily I In the pronunciation of these words, we findevery syllable in the word voluntarily rises ex-cept the first, vol; and every syllable in the wordinvoluntarily falls but the first, in. A slow draw-ling pronunciation of these words will evidentlyshow that this is the case. These different slidesof the voice are named from the direction theytake in the conclusion of a word, as that is themost apparent, especially if there are several syl-lables after the accented syllable, or if the wordbe but of one syllable, and terminate in a vowelor a liquid : for, in this case, the sound lasts sometime after the word is articulated. Thus voluntarilymay be said to have the rising, and involuntarilythe falling inflection; and wc must carefully guardagainst mistaking the low tone at the beginningof the rising inflection for the falling inflection,and the high tone at the beginning of the fallinginflection for the rising

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