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Oratory
 Sacred and Secular:
 OR, THE
 Extemporaneous Speaker,
 WITH
 SKETCHES OF THE MOST EMINENT SPEAKERS OF ALL AGES
By WILLIAM PITTENGER,
Author of “Daring and Suffering.”
INTRODUCTION BY HON. JOHN A. BINGHAM,
AND
APPENDIX
CONTAINING A “CHAIRMAN’S GUIDE” FOR CONDUCTING PUBLIC MEETINGS ACCORDING TO THE BEST PARLIAMENTARY MODELS.
New York:
SAMUEL R. WELLS, PUBLISHER, 389 BROADWAY.
1869.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868,
By SAMUEL R. WELLS.
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
EDWARD O. JENKINS,
PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER,
20 North William Street.
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PREFACE.
When we first began to speak in public, we felt the needof a manual that would point out the hindrances likely tobe met with, and serve as a guide to self-improvement.Such help would have prevented many difficult and painfulexperiences, and have rendered our progress in the delightfulart of coining thought into words more easy andrapid. In the following pages we give the result ofthought and observations in this field, and trust it willbenefit those who are now in the position we were then.
We have freely availed ourself of the labor of others,and would especially acknowledge the valuable assistancederived from the writings of Bautain, Stevens and Holyoake.Yet the following work, with whatever merit ordemerit it may possess, is original in both thought andarrangement.
We have treated general preparation with more thanordinary fullness, for although often neglected, it is thenecessary basis upon which all special preparation rests.
As the numerous varieties of speech differ in comparativelyfew particulars, we have treated one of the most4common—that of preaching—in detail, with only suchbrief notices of other forms as will direct the student inapplying general principles to the branch of oratory thatengages his attention.
We are not vain enough to believe that the modes ofculture and preparation pointed out in the following pagesare invariably the best, but they are such as we have founduseful, and to the thoughtful mind may suggest others stillmore valuable.
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CONTENTS.
PREFACE.—Objects of the Work stated3
 
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