Excerpt from An American Selection, of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth; To Which Are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the Mind
Let each syllable and the letters which compose it, be pronounced with a clear voice, without whining, drawl ing, lisping, stammering, mumbling in the throat, or speaking through the nose. Avoid equally a dull draw} ing habit, and too much rapidity of pronunciation: for each of these faults destroys a distinct articulation.
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