OR A

SELECTION OF PIECES

IN
PROSE AND VERSE,

FOR THE
IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED ELEMENTS OF GESTURE, ILLUSTRATED BY FOUR PLATES; AND RULES POR EXPRESSING

WITA PROPRIETY, THE VARIOUS Passions, &c. OF THE MIND.

ALSO,

AN APPENDIX,
CONTAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN.

FROM THE FOURTA EDITION, IMPROVED AND CORRECTED,

CONCORD: PRINTED BY ISAAC HILL. AND SOLD BY HIM AT THE FRANKLIN BOORSTORE. SOLD ALSO BY ISAAC LONG, JUN. HOPRINTON,

AND ISAIAL THOMAS, JUN. BOSTON.

1817.

THE NEW YOR, PUBLIC LIBRARY

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY LESSONS.

1: No the speaking of speeches at schools, Walker

,

2.

3. Rules for expressing with propriety, the prin.

cipal passions and humors, which occur in

reading or public speaking,

Burgh,

Rules respecting elocution,

Walker,

28

46

PART I.-LESSONS IN READING.

SECTION I.

ib.

ib.

1. to 5. Select sentences, Art of Thinking,

57

6. The fox and the goat,

Dodsley's Fables,

62

7. The fox and the stork,

ib.

63

8. The court of death,

ib.

64

9. The partial judge,

ib.

65

10. The siek lion, the fox and the wolf,

11. Dishonesty punished, Kane's hints,

66

12. The picture,

ib.

ib.

13. The two bees,

Dodsley's Fables,

67

14. Beauty and deformity, Percival's Tales,

ib.

15. Remarkable instance of friendship, Art of Speaking, 68

16. Dionysius and Damocles,

ib.

69

17. Character of Cataline,

Sallust,

18. Avarice and Luxury,

70