THE

AMERICAN

COMMON-SCHOOL READER

AND

SPEAKER:

BEING A

SELECTION OF PIECES IN PROSE AND VERSE,

WITH

RULES FOR READING AND SPEAKING.

BY

JOHN GOLDSBURY, A.M.,

COMPILER OF THE COMMON SCHOOL GRAMMAR,' AND 'SEQUEL,' AND TEACHER OF
THE HIGH SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS.,

AND

WILLIAM RUSSELL,

AUTHOR OF LESSONS IN ENUNCIATION,'
''THE AMERICAN BLOCUTIONIST, PRIMARY
READER, ETC., AND TEACHER OF ELOCUTION IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,

AND PHILLIPS AND ABBOT ACADEMIES, ANDOVER, MASS., AND AT
THE THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, EAST WINDSOR, CONN.

Thirty-second Thousand.

BOSTON:

TAPPAN, WHITTEMORE AND MASON,
114 WASHINGTON STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, BY JOHN GOLDSBURY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

TO

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,

894 G-62 1844

This Work

IS,

WITH HIS PERMISSION,

RESPECTFULLY

DEDICATED.

CONTENTS.

True Time.

Exercises on Time.

Appropriate Pauses.

Rules for Rhetorical Pauses.

Right Emphasis.-Rules on Emphasis.

Correct Inflections.

Rules on the Rising Inflection..

"6 Falling Inflection.

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8. Antiquity of Freedom.

9. Sunrise on the Hills.

PART II. Pieces for Practice in Reading and Declamation.

LESS 1. Paul's defence before Festus and Agrippa.

2. Cultivation of the Mind..

3. Physical Education.

4. Self-Education.

5. True Eloquence.

15. Impressions from History.

16. The Genius of Death..

6. Industry indispensable to the Orator.

7. Genius.

20. Poetry.

21. Causes of War.

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22

13. Birthplace of American Liberty.

14. Character of Washington.

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10. The Christian Character.

11. Advantages of a Popular Government.

12. Reverence for Law.

25. Hymn of Nature.

26. Universal Decay.

32

Rules on Expressive Tone.

34 Appropriate Modulation.

17. The Deep..

18. Parallel between Pope and Dryden.

19. The Puritans

"6

both Inflections in connexion. 36

Rule on the Circumflex or Wave.. 38

Monotone.

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66

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66

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Harmonic Inflections.

Repeated Words..

Exercises on the Rising Inflection..

Falling Inflection.

40

66

66

66

43

both Inflections in connexion. 51

Just Stress,-Radical Stress.

Explosion,-Expulsion,-Median

54

55

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Stress, Effusion.

Suppression,-Vanishing Stress, 56

Compound Stress.

.56

Thorough Stress,-Intermitted Stress,

or Tremor

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Expressive Tones.

Key to the Notation of Expressive

Tone.

32. Human Culture.

33. Grecian and Roman Eloquence.

34. Thanatopsis..

35. Trust in God.

36. Memory.

22. Foundation of National Character.

23. Success of the Gospel.

24. Power of the Soul.

27. Eternity of God.

28. Two Centuries from the Landing of the Pilgrims.

29. The Upright Lawyer.

30. Character of the present Age.

31. The Founders of Boston.

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ORVILLE DEWEY.

57

58

59

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72

75

75

S. REED. 76

DR. HUMPHREY. 78

D. A. WHITE. 79

DANIEL WEBSTER.

81

82
83

W. C. BRYANT. 85

H. W. LONGFELLOW. 86

E. COOPER. 87

DR. SHARP. 89

J. HOPKINSON. 90

PROFESSOR STUART. 92

W. Smyth.* 93

G. C. VERPLANCK. 94

G. Croly. 96

J. G. C. BRAINARD. 97

Johnson. 93

Macaulay. 100

. CHANNING. 103

H. BINNEY. 105

E. EVERETT. 105

PRESIDENT WAYLAND. 107

R. H. DANA, SEN. 103

W. B. O. PEABODY. 110

GREENWOOD. 111

ID.

113

CRAFTS. 115

S. GREENLEAF. 116

E. EVERETT. 117

PRESIDENT QUINCY. 119

S. J. MAY. 120

J. Q. ADAMS. 123

W. C. BRYANT. 123

Wordsworth. 125

W. G. CLARK. 127

The names of American authors, are distinguished by small Capitals; those of Foreign authors by
Italics. By this arrangement, the necessity of a separate list of writers, is obviated.