Lessons in elocution: or, A selection of pieces in prose and verse
Subtitle: for the improvement of youth in reading and speaking, as well as for the perusal of persons of taste. : With an appendix, containing concise lessons on a new plan, and principles of English grammar
By: By William Scott. ; [Four lines from Milton]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 36283
Publisher: Printed by George Bunce.
Published: 1799
Place of publication: New-Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Elocution
Notes: Preface dated: Edinburgh, Jan. 6. 1789.

Signatures: A-2F⁶ [2G]².

"Elements of gesture."--p. [323-348], is taken from John Walker's Academic speaker and includes "Rules for expressing, with propriety, the principal passions and humours which occur in reading or public speaking," extracted from: James Burgh's Art of speaking.

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