The American orator, or, Elegant extracts in prose and poetry
Subtitle: comprehending a diversity of oratorical specimens, of the eloquence of popular assemblies, of the bar, of the pulpit, &c. : Principally intended for the use of schools and academies, : to which are prefixed, a dissertation on oratorical delivery, and the outlines of gesture. : [Two lines of quotation]
By: By Increase Cooke
Contributors: John Babcock and Son; Sidney's Press
Publisher: Sidney's Press. For John Babcock and Son, book-sellers, Church-St. New-Haven.
Published: 1818
Place of publication: [New Haven]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Portraits; Elocution; English literature; Literary collections; American literature
Notes: "The dissertation on oratorical delvery, and the outlines of gesture ... are mostly abstracted from Chapman's Orator ... Living authors, it is hoped, will not be displeased that useful and elegant passages have been borrowed of them ..."--Advertisement, p. vi.

"To the youth of America ..."--dedication, p. [iii], dated: New Haven, October, 1811.

Copyright Oct. 19, 1811 by Increase Cooke.

Wood-engraved portrait of George Washington, frontispiece.

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