Quintilian's Institutes of the Orator Volume 2; In Twelve Books (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1774 Excerpt: ... CHAP. III. Of Pronunciation. f. Its great power and efficacy.--Wants the super intendance of nature and care.--Is divided into voice and gesture. II. Nature and practice are principal considerations in regard to the goodness of the voice.--What care of the voice is necessary to he taken by the orator.--The best method for exercising the voice. III. The voice ought to be as the discourse, i. Correct. 2. Clear. 3. Graceful.--And here he treats of several vices of pronunciation and particularly of monotony and canting, or a singing tone. 4. Just: that ist suitable to the thbigs spoken of. IV. Of gesture.--Its great power.--The parts of the body that belong to gesture.--The orator's dress and care of his person. V. Pronunciation consists as much in gesture as voice, and requires to be suited to things and persons.--Four things are therefore to be considered.--- . The kind of cause. 2. The parts of the oration.--And here he teaches what the orator ought to observe in rising up before he speaks.--What in the exordium.--What in the narration.--What in the proofs.--What in the peroration. 3. Sentences. 4. Words themselves. VI. A different manner in pleading suits different persons. Moderation becomes all. I. 'PRONUNCIATIONS called by most."--authors action; but the former name seems rather to agree with the voice, and the latter with Of pronunciation, see Cic. de Orat. iii. 215, 218. gesture. gesture. Cicero, speaking of action, calls it sometimes a kind of language and sometimes a certain eloquence of the body; but he makes its parts 'f' two, which are the fame as those of pronunciation, that is, voice and motion. Wherefore both appellations may be used sndiscrimi riately. As to the thing Itself, it is of wonderful power and efficacy in orators, what we have co...