Lessons in Elocution: Or a Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking (Classic Reprint): To Which ... with Propriety the Various Passions of the - Softcover
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Locution has, 'for some years past, been an object of attention in'the most respectable schools in'this country. A laudable ambition of instrucfing youth, in the pronunciation and delivery of their native language, has made English s'peeches a very conspicua ous part of those'exhibitions of oratory, which do our semifinaries of learning so much credit.
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