Sargent's Standard Series of Speakers-No. 2.

THE

INTERMEDIATE

STANDARD SPEAKER,

CONTAINING

PIECES FOR DECLAMATION

IN

SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, ETC.

INTRODUCTORY, OR SUPPLEMENTARY, TO THE STANDARD SPEAKER.

BY

EPES SARGENT,
AUTHOR OF "THE STANDARD SPEAKER," THE STANDARD SERIES OF

READERS, ETC., ETC.

PHILADELPHIA:
CHARLES DE SILVER & SONS,

PUBLISHERS.

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paid, on receipt of the advertised price. VIRGIL. Interlinear translation by Hart and Osborne, 1 vol. royal 12mo, half

turkey-morocco. $2.25. CÆSAR. Interlinear translation by Hamilton and Clarke, 1 vol. royal 12mo,

half turkey-morocco. $2.25. HORACE. Interlinear translation by Stirling, Nutall, and Clarke, 1 vol. royal

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XENOPHON'S ANABASIS, Interlinear translation by Hamilton and

Clarke, 1 vol. royal 12mo, half turkey-morocco. $2.75.
CLARKE'S PRÁCTICAL AND PROGRESSIVE LATIN GRAM.

MAR, adapted to the interlinear series of Classics, and to all other systems,

1 vol. royal 12mo, half turkey-morocco. $1.50. OVID. Interlinear translation by Geo. Wm. Heilig, 1 vol. royal 12mo, half

turkey-morocco binding. $2.25. HOMER’S ILIAD. Interlinear translation, 1 vol. royal 12mo, half turkey

morocco binding. $2.75. GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN. Interlinear translation, with original Greek

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To be followed by School Editions of other Classic Writers on the same plan., SARGENTS STANDARD SPEAKER, by Epes Sargent; containing

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SARGENTS INTERMEDIATE STANDARD SPEAKER, by Epes

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SARGENTS PRIMARY STANDARD SPEAKER, by Epes Sargent,

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SARGENT'S SELECTIONS IN POETRY, by Epes Sargent. 1 vol. 1200,

half morocco. $1.50. FROST'S AMERICAN SPEAKER, by John Frost, LL.D., 12mo, half

roan, $1.50. FLOWERS OF ELOCUTION, by Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz, 1 vol. 12mo, half-morocco. $1.50.

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JOHNSTON'S TURNER’S CHEMISTRY, by John Johnston, LL.D.

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JOHNSTON'S TURNER’S ÉLEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY, by John

Johnston, LL.D. New edition, 1 vol. 12mo, half morocco. $1.50.
JOHNSTON'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, by John Johnston, LL.D.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, by EPES SARGENT, in the Cierk's Oface of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.

Publishers and compilers are informed that many of the pieces in this collection are subject to copyright.

PRE FACE.

The success of The Standard Speaker having been such as to elicit from the public and the publisher a demand for a series of Speakers by the same author, and adapted to the different ages of pupils, the present volume has been prepared. It forms the second of a series of three; of which The Standard Speaker is the largest and most comprehensive, and The Primary Standard Speaker the smallest and most simple. Repetitions of pieces are, with a few unimportant exceptions, avoided in these books, so that they jointly present nearly all the approved gems of oratory, ancient and modern, and all the choicest lyrical and dramatic pieces in the English language, suitable for school delivery.

It will be seen that considerable original effort, in the way of translation, adaptation, and alteration, has been expended on this work. Teachers of elocution are well aware that many excellent pieces, which a slight change would make appropriate as exercises for the young, are rendered useless because of their length, because of their episodical passages, or because of certain objectionable expressions which they may con

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