The art of speaking. Containing, I. An essay; in which are given rules for expressing properly the principal passions and humors, which occur in reading, or public speaking; and II. Lessons taken from the ancients and moderns (with additions and alterations where thought useful) exhibiting a variety of matter for practice; the emphatical words printed in italics; with notes of direction referring to the essay. to which are added, a table of the lessons, and an index of the various passions and humours in the essay and lessons. [Three lines in Latin from Cicero]
Burgh, James,1714-1775.
Danbury, Connecticut : Printed for Edmund and Ephraim Washburn,
1795.
Attributed to James Burgh in the Dictionary of national biography.
Errors in paging: p. 217, 221 misnumbered 127, 211.
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Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut,
Evans,