PHILADELPHIA:

JAMES KAY, JUN AND BROTHER
Pittsburgh: John I. Kay & Co.

AMERICAN

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ORATOR'S OWN BOOK:

OR THE ART OF

EXTEMPORANEOUS PUBLIC SPEAKING,

INCLUDING

A 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,

122 Chestnut Street-near Fourth.

PITTSBURGH: JOHN I. KAY & CO.

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.