Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse

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April 189

Sbs april 26, 1899

Adam & Siller
I By

John Coltr

LESSONS

ELOCUTION;

OR,

A SELECTION OF PIECES

Prose and Verse,

FOR

THE IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH

READING AND SPEAKING.

BY WILLIAM SCOTT.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED,

ELEMENTS OF GESTURE;

ILLUSTRATED

BY FOUR PLATES, AND RULES FOR EXPRESSING WITH PROPRIETY

THE VARIOUS PASSIONS OF THE MIND.

ALSO, AN

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

ABRIDGMENT OF WALKER'S RULES FOR THE PRONUNCIATION

OF GREEK AND LATIN PROPER NAMES, WITH A LIST

OF CLASSICAL NAMES WHICH OCCUR

IN THE WORK.

STEREOTYPED BY T. H. CARTER & CO.

PLYMOUTH, MASS
PUBLISHED BY EZRA COLLIER.

........

1825

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit :

District Clerk's Office.

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the eighteenth day of March, A. D.
1825, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States
of America, EZRA COLLIER, of the said District, has deposited in
this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor,
in the words following, to wit:- "Lessons in Elocution; or a Selec-
tion of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the improvement of Youth in
Reading and Speaking. By WILLIAM SCOTT. To which are prefix-
ed, Elements of Gesture; illustrated by four plates, and rules for ex-
pressing with propriety the various passions of the mind. Also, an
Appendix, containing lessons on a new plan. To which is added, an
abridgment of Walker's Rules for the pronunciation of Greek and
Latin proper names, with a list of classical names which occur in the
work." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States,
entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the
copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of
such copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an Act,
entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the
encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and
books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times
therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of
designing, engraving, and etching historical, and other prints."