A piesert, lom
his grand pa

Foll. Bacci.

Pune 14" 1826

OR, A

SELECTION OF PIECES.

PROSE AND VERSE,

FOR THE

IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH

IN

READING & SPEAKING

BY WILLIAM SCOTT.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

ELEMENTS OF GESTURE.

ILLUSTRATED BY FOUR PLATES; AND RULES

FOR
EXPRESSING WITH PROPRIETY, THE VARIOUS

PASSIONS, &C. OF THE MIND.

ALSO, AN

APPENDIX

CONTAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN.

LEICESTER :
PRINTED BY HORI BROWN,

1820

V

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FROM THE ESTATE OF

ARTEMUS WARD
DECEMBER 11, 1931

On the speaking of speeches at schools, Walker,

Page.

1.

9

2. On the acting of plays at schools,

ib.

20

3. Rules for expressing with propriety, the prin-

cipal passions and humors, which occur in

reading or public speaking,

Burgh, 28

Rules respecting elocution,

Walker, 46

PART 1. 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,

64

9. The partial jadge.

65

10. The sick lion, the fox and the wolf, ib.

ib.

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

69

16. Dionysius and Damocles,

17. Character of Cataline,

Sallust,

70

18. Avarice and Luxury,

Spectator,

19. Hercules' choice,

Tarler,

72

20. Will Honeyconib's Spectator', Speciator,

75

21. On good breeding,

Chester fieid,

78

22. Address to a young student,

Knox,

23. Advantages of and motives to cheerfulness, Spectator, 84

ib.

81