The Elocutionist: Consisting of Declamations and Readings in Prose and Poetry for the Use of Colleges and Schools

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Currans remarks on Armstrong
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XXVIDuty of a member of parliament 62
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Tribute to the enterprising spirit of the NewEngland colonists
65
America
67
Mr Ames on the British treaty CORERNES
68
Extract from a speech of Mr Fox on the French war
70
Curran on the employment and character of Informers
71
Unprecedented growth of American population
73
Rapid growth of America XXXIV Speech of Philips for a gardener XXXV On an address to the throne
74
Extract from general Washingtons address to the American army in 1783
84
Speech of Mr James Otis
86
Extract from an appeal to the Irish parliament
88
Col Barres speech on the stampact bill XL Extract from Mr Quinceys speech on foreign relations XLI Extract from a speech of Mr Fox in the British ...
93
Extract from the speech of Sir James Mackintosh XLIII Extracts from Erskines speech for Stockdale XLIV Hyder Ali XLV Advantages of an English...
97
Redgauntlets address to his nephew
128
Falstaffs ragged regiment
131
Reply of Rob Roy McGregor to Mr Osbaldistone
132
The philosophy of hatred
134
The miseries of war
136
Defence of J A Williams
139
On atheism
140
The present systems of education defective
142
READINGS LXI Conclusion of Dr Rushs chapter on the mode of in struction in elocution
145
Industry necessary to the attainment of eloquence
147
Discovery of America by Columbus
149
Execution of the earl of Argyle
156
Battle of Hastings
158
Description of Cadiz
162
Character of Cromwell
163
Character of Howard
167
Character of Cowpers poetry
169
Anecdotes of Mozart
173
Influence of the natural laws on the happiness of in dividuals
176
Same subject continued
183
On happiness of temper
187
Description of a tournament
190
Animated description of a battle
196
Interview between Waverly and Fergus MacIvor at Carlisle previous to the execution of the latter
200
Death of Morris the Spy
205
Funeral of Steenie Mucklebackit
208
Postoffice in Fairport
216
Destruction of a family of the Pilgrims by the Pequod Indians
223
Stagecoach
231
Diedrich Knickerbockers NewEngland farmer
235
Not at home
237
Case of Lord Mansfields wig
239
The mice
244
A state of probation considered with reference to Divine goodness
245
The telescope and microscope
249
On sincerity
250
Religion the only basis of society
252
Without God in the world
253
On gaming
255
Mementos of the instability of human existence
257
Effects of the bible on the intellectual character
261
On the memory of our fathers
264

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