Sentimental scenes, selected from celebrated plays; : and calculated to promote morality, the knowledge of mankind, facility in articulate reading, and gracefulness in public speaking. Accompanied with a great variety of plain, figurative, and impassioned paragraphs; which, it is hoped, will prove useful elocutionary exercises. /
Wilson, John,teacher of elocution, Edinburgh
Wedderspoon, Catherine,active 1820,former owner.StEdNL
Edinburgh: : Printed for the author, by James Muirhead, and sold by P. Hill, & A. Constable & Co. Edinburgh; & Constable, Hunter, Park & Hunter, London.,
1809.
An Edinburgh printed moral instructor, which, through the selection of choice extracts from contemporary and historical theatrical works, is designed to promote virtuous behaviour, and provide elocutionary exercises for, a juvenile readership. The authors represented range from Cicero to Shakespeare, Goldsmith to Gay.
Manuscript inscriptions on the front pastedown and front free endpaper "Catherine Wedderspoons book Perth Janu. 15th 1820".
Moral education.
Public speaking.