IN ELOCUTION, 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 EXPRES SING, WITH PROPRIETY, THE VARIOUS - PASSIONS OF THE MIND, NOS. ALSO, AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN. . MONTPELIER, Vt. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY LESSONS, 1. ON the speaking of speeches at schools, Walker, il 2. On the acting of plays at schools, ib. 3. Rules for expressing with propriety the prin- cipal passions and humours, which oc- cur in reading or public speaking, Burgh, 28 1. to 5. Select sentences, Art of Thinking, 10. The sick lion, the fox and the wolf, ib. 14. Beauty and deformity, Perciva’ls Tales, 67 ib. |