OR A

SELECTION OF PIECES

IN

PROSE AND VERSE,

FOR THE

IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH

IN

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, &C. OF THE MIND.

ALSO,

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN.

FROM THE FOURTH EDITION, IMPROVED AND CORRECTED.

CONCORD:

PRINTED BY ISAAC HILL.

AND SOLD BY HIM AT THE FRANKLIN BOOKSTORE.

SOLD ALSO BY ISAAC LONG, JUN. HOPKINTON,

AND ISAIAH THOMAS, JUN. BOSTON.

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY LESSONS.

1.

ON the speaking of speeches at schools, Walker,

0

2. On

of at

3. Rules for expressing with propriety, the prin-

cipal passions and humors, which occur in

reading or public speaking,

Rules respecting elocution,

PART I-LESSONS IN READING.

SECTION I.

Burgh,

Walker,

1. to 5. Select sentences,

6. The fox and the goat,

7. The fox and the stork,

8. The court of death,

9. The partial judge,

10. The sick lion, the fox and the wolf,

11. Dishonesty punished,

12. The picture,

13. The two bees,

Art of Thinking,

Dodsley's Fables,

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

Kane's hints,

ib.

Dodsley's Fables,

Percival's Tales,

14. Beauty and deformity,

15. Remarkable instance of friendship,

Art of Speaking,

ib.

Sallust,

Spectator,

Tattler,

Page.

9

20

Spectator,

Chesterfield,

Knox,

28

46

57

62

63

64

65

ib.

66

ib.

16. Dionysius and Damocles,

17. Character of Cataline,

18. Avarice and Luxury,

19. Hercules' choice,

20. Will Honeycomb's Spectator,

21. On good breeding,

78

22. Address to a young student,

81

23. Advantages of, and motives to cheerfulness, Spectator, 84

67

ib.

68

69

70

71

72

75