A present from,
his Grandpa
The: W.
Ward.

June 14" 1826.

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.

LEICESTER :

PRINTED BY HORI BROWN,

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ESTATE OF ARTEMUS WARD DECEMBER 11, 1931

1

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY LESSONS.

ON the speaking of speeches at schools, Walker,

1.

2. On the acting of plays at schools,

ib.

3. Rules for expressing with propriety, the prin-

cipal passions and humors, which occur in

reading or public speaking,

Rules respecting elocution,

SECTION I.

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,

PART I.-LESSONS IN READING.

Burgh,

Walker,

14. Beauty and deformity.

15. Remarkable instance of friendship,

16. Dionysius and Damocles,

17. Character of Cataline,

18. Avarice and Luxury,

Hercules' choice,

Art of Thinking,

Dodsley's Fables,

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

Kane's hints,

ib.

Page.

9

20

Dodsley's Fables,

Percival's Tales,

Art of Speaking,

ib.

Sallust,

Spectator,

Tatler,

28

46

Spectator,

Chester field,

Knox,

57

62

63

64

65

ib.

66

ib.

67

ib.

68

69

70

71

72

75

78

20. Will Honeycomb's Spectator,

21. On good breeding,

81

22. Address to a young student,

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