The rhetorical speaker, or elocutionary exercises; designed to perfect the senior classes of students in the art of reading, recitation, declamation, and oratory; composed of the beauties of the most distinguished productions of classical prose and poetry in the English language; disposed under proper heads, and interspersed with appropriate observations, and directions for acquiring a correct style, a suitable, articulate, and graceful delivery. The whole is particularly calculated to inculcate and establish the principles of piety, virtue, honour, and religion; to inspire the juvenile mindwith the love of polite literature, and useful studies; and to awaken the refined sensibilities of the human heart

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by J. Compton