The rhetorical speaker, or elocutionary exercises; designed to perfect the senior classes of students in the art of reading, recitation, declamation, and oratory; composed of the beauties of the most distinguished productions of classical prose and poetry in the English language; disposed under proper heads, and interspersed with appropriate observations, and directions for acquiring a correct style, a suitable, articulate, and graceful delivery. The whole is particularly calculated to inculcate and establish the principles of piety, virtue, honour, and religion; to inspire the juvenile mindwith the love of polite literature, and useful studies; and to awaken the refined sensibilities of the human heart
Subtitle: In two Volumes, Vol I. Prose, Vol II. Poetry.
Contributors: Murphy, Joseph William, own; Simms and McIntyre (Belfast),; Thomas Mairs & Co. (Belfast),
Publisher: Printed for Simms and McIntyre); Printed by T.Mairs & Co.
Published: 1822
Place of publication: Belfast (Donegall Street)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Notes: Reference: Anderson, New & enl ed., p68.

Handwritten note on title page "Joseph Wm. Murphy, Dec 24".