Henry Cline-Table of Contents (In Thelwall's words)
Union of physiological and elocutionary science |
1 |
Temporary aberration from scientific pursuits |
2 |
Uses of retirement |
3 |
Discovery of the physical principle of rhythmus (Milton and Dryden) |
4 |
Numbers of the Paradise Lost |
8 |
Application of the discovery to treatment if impediments-Harmony of utterance and composition-Oratorical utterance-Health, etc. |
9 |
Case of three brothers in Brecknock, with enunicative impediments |
11 |
Treatment and Cure |
13 |
Causes of delay in more extensive application of the principle |
14 |
First idea of a scientific course of lectures on elocution |
15 |
Difficulties and obstructions |
16 |
Lectures and experiments in Sheffield, Leeds, York, and Hull |
18 |
Confirmation of my theory from musical science-elocution of Greece-Steele's Prosdia Rationalis |
20 |
Unreasonable neglect of English elocution by English scholars |
26 |
Consequent inanity and degradation of English oratory |
27 |
Application of my principle to the speechless and the stammerer |
28 |
Process of cultivation and development-obligations to professional and scientific characters |
29 |
Complication of tones in the modulation of the human voice |
31 |
Communication from Mr. John Gough, on the sonorous vibrations of the chest |
35 |
Accuracy and practical consequences of Mr. Gough's theory |
40 |
Experiments in confirmation of the theory |
43 |
Resumption of the progress of diffusion and development of the science |
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Case of a young gentleman at Birmingham with defect of palate and uvula |
46 |
Artificial palate-advantages and inconveniences |
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Elocutionary treatment and remedy |
49 |
Case of a gentlemen with complicated impediment, recommended by the former, ibid. Operations on the fraenum-Opinion of Dr. Denman, etc |
50 |
Cases of four young gentlemen in Doncaster with original constriction of fraena |
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Whether stammering, stuttering, etc. ever immediately ascribable to organic defect or malconformation |
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How far such defects may be remote or incidental causes of such calamity |
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Brutality of schoolmasters, etc. Operation of terror |
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Nervous and hereditary impediments |
56 & 59 |
Complication of moral and intellectual causes in certain species of impediment, and exclusive operation in others |
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What descriptions of impediment may and what may not be referred to simple organic causes |
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Contrast between the phaenomena of these and of such as are ascribable to mental embarrassment and habitual misaction |
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Case of a young lady in Edinburgh-treatment and cure |
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Influence of mental causes-management of the passions, temper etc. Action and reaction of physical and mental causes |
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Parallel and connection between certain cases of impediment, and certain approximations towards idiocy and degrees or tendencies to mental derangement |
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Parallel between certain opposite phaenomena of impediment and certain constitutional diseases of excessive and of defective irritability |
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Impotency of mere medical treatment of impediments |
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Application of the general principle to other cases of defective development and partial derangements of the faculties; power of educational treatment to avert or remedy such calamities |
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Recurrence to the subject of organic impediments-operations for the hare-lip, simple and complicated |
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Artificial palates-Mr. Flood (the Irish Orator)-hints to dentists |
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Elocutionary treatment requisite after the operation |
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Development of the powers of existing organs, and substitution of the actions of one for another |
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Resumption of more extensive view of the subject-development of the organic powers and faculties in general |
78 |
Indolent despair, criminal negligence and inconsistency |
79 |
Anecdote |
81 |
Cases of mere speechlessness, contradistinguished from those of the deaf-born dumb-tribute to a noble institution |
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Case of a young female at Maidstone |
85 |
Case of a child bline from the operation of the inoculated small-pox and supposed to have been rendered speechless by the same cause |
86 |
Case of a poor man, speechless from epilepsy and organic imbecility |
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Contradistinguishing phenomena-Inquiry how far the faculty of speech the cause or consequence of intellectual superiority |
101 |
Design of a systematic treatise on the distinction of physical and moral idiocy |
102 |
Obstructions in the way of such designs-the trade of literature-prejudices, etc. |
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Further communications from Mr. Gough-case of a child rendered speechless by seclusion and indulgence, and afterwards attaining the use of speech, by being placed under new circumstances |
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Curious instance of moral idiocy from white's Natural History of Selbourne |
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Further facts-illustrations from Ancient History,--Savage of Aveyron-Conjecture relative to the Son of Croesus |
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Case of moral idiocy, etc. |
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Inadequacy of the mere propensity of imitation for development of human faculties |
123 |
Application to parental infatuation |
124 |
Original differences of facility and aptitude require different modes of stimulus and management-occult causes-anatomical indications |
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Case of two children rendered speechless to a very protracted age by habit and imitation |
127 |
Case of permanent speechlessness from temporary deafness |
128 |
Dr. James of Carlisle-case of privation of speech from epilepsy |
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Case of general disorganization of the senses-from the influence of the same disease |
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Case of speechlessness in the neighbourhood of Rochester, from complication of physical causes, Etc |
142 |
Case of impediment from amentia |
143 |
Proposal for treatment of such cases |
144 |
Conclusion-motives for the present address |
148 |
P.S. opinion on a case of defective utterance from partial deafness and supposed deficiency of general faculty |
151 |
Appendices to A Letter to Henry Cline
Vindication and Illustration of the Rhythmus of Milton |
159 |
On the improper Elision of te Vowel in the customary modes of printing and reading English verse |
168 |
Further explanation of the physical principle of rhythmus-Examination of a passage in Steele's Prosodia Rationalis, on the Cause of the delight received by the ear from such successive sounds exclusively as follow each other in definite musical proportions |
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Brief Sketch of an entire course of Lectures on the Science and Practice of Elocution |
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More particular Sketch of the Physiological portion of the Course |
183 |
On the Musical properties of English Syllables |
193 |
Poise or Thesis and Arsis |
194 |
Percussion |
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Loudness and Softness |
196 |
Force |
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Accents:--confused misapplication of the term by modern grammarians |
197 |
Ben Jonson's accurate definition |
200 |
Varieties of English Accent |
201 |
Dr. Denman on the fatal consequences of cutting the bridle of the tongue |
205 |
An attempt to ascertain the circumstances under which that operation may be necessary or proper |
207 |
Correction of certain misstatements relative to the Abbe de l'Epee and his institution for the Deaf and Dumb |
214 |
On the impropriety of place the Deaf-born Dumb and persons who have Impediments of Speech in the same seminaries |
224 |
Sketches of the tone and tune of celebrated Actors |
227 |
Communication from Mr. Gough on the subject of Cretinage or Alpine Idiocy, etc. |
235 |
Some Account of the Institution in Bedford-Place, and the oratorical and Historical Society established in that Seminary |
241 |