OR A SELECTION OF PIECES IN PROSE AND VERSE, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH IN READING AND SPEAKING. BY WILLIAM SCOTT. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED ELEMENTS OF GESTURE, ILLUSTRATED BY FOUR PLATES; AND RULES FOR EXPRESSING ALSO, APPENDIX, TAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN. From the last revised edition. CONCORD, N. H. PRINTED BY HILL AND MOORE, AND SOLD BY THEM AT THE FRANKLIN BOOKSTORE. INTRODUCTORY LESSONS. CONTENTS. the speaking of speeches at schools, 2. ib. 3. Rules for expressing with propriety the principal passions and humors 5. Sir Roger de Coverly's family, 6. The folly of inconsistent expectations, 7. Description of the vale of Keswick, in Cumberland, 12. On the immortality of the soul, Robertson, Hume, Harris, 3. Description of a country alehouse, 4. Character of a country schoolmaster, 9. Evening in paradise described, 10. Elegy written in a country church yard, - 11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her lover, 1. Romulus to the people of Rome, after building the city, 2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus, 4. Calisthenes' reproof of Cleon's flattery to Alexander, 5. Caius Marius to the Romans, 6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army, 239 240 242 250 253 258 259 260 264 263 271 274 287 296 297 299 ib. 300 303 306 |