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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. The very expression Clerical Reading implies the presence of an audience; and this at once suggests, as the first rule for the reader, that he must make himself well heard. The attainment of this end will be the measure of his exertions, so far as the pitch of his voice is concerned. In whatever degree he falls short of it, he will fail in his duty; while to go beyond it is a certain loss of his own labour, and possibly an annoyance to some of his hearers. In applying this general rule to each particular case, respect must be had, first of all, to the size of the building and its acoustic qualities; and then to the number and condition of the persons in it. On the extent to which they fill it, will much depend what body of sound will be required from the reader; especially with a view to overcoming that most troublesome adversary, Echo, in a large and half empty building. And the fact of their being, as a body, refined and educated, or rude and ignorant, willmake a great difference in the pitch most desirable for them. The half-word which proverbially suffices for the wise, is of little or no value to the simple, to whose dull comprehension it suggests nothing. The whole word might, it is true, convey no definite meaning to him; but as long as he hears distinctly what is read, he is content to take sound for sense, or, at any rate, is too just to blame another for his own want of knowledge. Thus, though not edified, he is satisfied: and where the reader is a clergyman, and the hearer his parishioner, that is not a little. So far there seems but little, if any, exaggeration in the words Mr. Tennyson puts into the month of his Northern Farmer: though it may be doubted whether any Southerners of the same class would rise to the high standard of his charity...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217221689 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217221688 |
| Weight | 0.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.13 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 54 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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