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coming the rational creature to learn to wield, with grace and grandeur, the organs of speech? -tell the student, who has not carefully attended to this department of knowledge, that, whatever stores of Latin, or Grecian, or other lore, he may have hoarded up for his thousand exigencies, he has left undone one half of his duty?— and consequently suggesting that, if there is any responsibility attached to the medical practitioner, there is a tenfold responsibility entailed upon the head of the Pulpit Orator. There can be no excuse on the ground of the want of the instructor, as Nature, who distributes her favours with no mean or niggardly hand, is incessantly lifting up her voice-to whom alone we appeal for proof of our observations. Through the child, she becomes his instructor, and may teach him to avoid those rocks and quicksands, which have proved fatal to many public speakers, in despite of all their superior knowledge, and all their splendid and boasted classical attainments. He may, if he is wise, gather instruction on every hand-from the Miss in the drawingroom, down to the beggar on the dunghill-from the man of grey hairs, tottering on the brink of the grave, to the helpless infant on the breast of its mother.

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