The Art of Public Speaking you not to be lenient in self−exaction. Say to yourself courageously: What others can do, I can attempt. A bold spirit conquers where others flinch, and a trying task challenges pluck. Reading from Manuscript This method really deserves short shrift in a book on public speaking, for, delude yourself as you may, public reading is not public speaking. Yet there are so many who grasp this broken reed for support that we must here discuss the "read speech"−−apologetic misnomer as it is. Certainly there are occasions−−among them, the opening of Congress, the presentation of a.
