Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking

E.P. & G.S. Walton, 1819 - 383 páginas

ON the speaking of speeches at schools	11

On the acting of plays at schools	21

Rules for expressing with propriety	27

Rules respecting elocution	44

The journey of a day a picture	46

PART ILESSONS IN READING	54

The court of death	60

Avarice and Luxury	66

The shepherd and the philosopher	197

The toilet	204

On the death of Mrs Mason	210

SECTION VII	218

Celadon and Amelia	225

Scipio restoring the captive lady	233

Parting of Hector and Andromache Homer	246

The creation of the world Milton	256

Address to a young student	75

The bad reader	81

human life	85

Proper employment of time	87

On pride	93

Robertson	100

House of mourning	107

The folly of inconsistent expectations Aitkin	113

Advantages of commerce	119

On the immortality of the soul	125

Address to Art	137

The character of queen Elizabeth Hume	143

Theophrastus	150

On the present and a future state	157

SECTION V	164

The folly and madness of ambition	172

On the pleasure arising from objects	183

Story of le Fever	189

SECTION VIII	262

On happiness 4 Sterne	268

Lord Mansfield	279

Cicero for Milo	286

1	292

Hannibal to Scipio Africanus	293

Adherbal to the Roman senators	303

Demosthenes to the Athenians	309

Ćneas to queen Dido	315

Lamentations for the loss of sight	317

Lady Townly and Lady Grace Provoked Husband	322

Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell Henry VIII	334

Brutus and Cassius Shakespeares Julius Cesar	340

Sempronius speech for war	346

Bobadits method of defeating	351

On the pursuits of mankind	354

Adam and Eves morning hymn	374

Título	Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking
Autor	William Scott
Editor	E.P. & G.S. Walton, 1819
Procedencia del original	Universidad Estatal de Ohio
Digitalizado	24 Sep. 2014
Largo	383 páginas

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