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The rules for delivery are identical with those for the
language of oratory itself. For, as our language must
be correct, clear, ornate and appropriate, so with our
delivery; it will be correct, that is, free from fault, if
our utterance be fluent, clear, pleasant and “urbane,”
that is to say, free from all traces of a rustic or a foreign
accent.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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