A M E RICAN

ORATOR'S OWN BOOK:

OR THE ART OF

EXTEMPORANEOUS PUBLIC SPEAKING,

INCLUDING

9 Course of Discipline

FOR OBTAINING THE

FACULTIES OF DISCRIMINATION, ARRANGEMENT

AND ORAL DISCUSSION ;

WITH

A DEBATE,
AS AN EXERCISE IN ARGUMENTATIVE DECLAMATION;

AND NUMEROUS

SELECTIONS FOR PRACTICE.

WRITTEN AND COMPILED FOR THE USE OF COLLEGES,

SCHOOLS, AND STUDENTS OF ORATORY.

PHILADELPHIA:
JAMES KAY, JUN. AND BROTHER,

TIIT NL: YORK

PUBLIC LIBRARY

68383B

ASTUR, LET AND
TILDEY FOLVDATIONS
1940

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Entered according to the act of congress, in the year
1836, by James Kay, Jun. & BROTHER, in the clerk's of-
fice of the district court of the United States in and for
the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

Printed and Bound by
James Kay, Jun. & Brother,

Philadelphia.