Identifier: hillsmanualofsoc01hill (find matches)
Title: Hill's Manual of social and business forms: a guide to correct writing ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Hill, Thomas E. (Thomas Edie), 1832-1915
Subjects: Etiquette Business
Publisher: Chicago, Hill standard book co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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or woman ofage who amountof trainingfor this pur-pose, accom-panied by the necessaryopportunities for intellect-ual culture. Such beingthe fact, the followingsuggestions may be oppor-tune, as giving an outlineof the requisites necessaryfor the production of aready speaker. First. The foundationof the discourse should bethoroughly fixed in themind, and the order ofsuccession in which thearguments are to follow. Second. These should be so arranged that one thoughtshould be the natural outgrowth of the other, and each ideashould be so distinctly marked out as to be in readiness themoment it is wanted. Third. Tlie speaker should vividly feel all that he maydesign to speak, in order that clear ideas may be expressed.The mind should not, however, be so absorbed with the subjectin hand as to prevent its acting readily in the development ofthe topic under consideration. It is possible for the feelingsto become so vehement in their expression as to paralyze utter-ance from their very fullness.
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BASHFULNESS. The above illustrations represent the effect ofpractice and culture. While speaker No. 1, byhis unpolished manner and diffidence, is an ob-ject of pity or ridicule, and without influence Fourth. The feelings, in speaking, must be resolved intoideas, thoughts into images, to express which there must besuitable language. While the main idea should be firmlygrasped, in its elucidation it should be separated into its prin-cipal members, and these again divided into subordinate parts,each under perfect command of the speaker, to be called uponand used at will, until the subject is exhausted. Fifth. The full, complete and ready use of the imaginationis of the greatest importance to the extemporaneous speaker,which power may be greatly cultivated by reading the worksof Walter Scott, Dickens, and other standard writers who excel in imaginative description.To hold up before theaudience a clear, distinctoutline of the subject inhand, and paint the picturein fitting language sovivid

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