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I. On READING and DECLAMATION, wherein the Prin-
ciples of both are laid down under the feveral Heads
of Emphafis, Climax, Modulation, Paufes, Breaks, Tran-
fitions, Cadences, and Gesture.

II. On the MARKS and CHARACTERS of the different
Paffions and Affections of the Mind.

III. On COMPOSITION, tending to explain and illuftrate
the Beauties of fine Writing, and the Principles on
which they depend.

Defigned to form the Minds of Youth to a true Tafte in
Reading; to enable them to judge of the Beauties of
Writing from their own Obfervation; and to ground
them in an elegant Manner of Compofition. **

To which is added,

A very large Collection of EXAMPLES, in Profe and
Verfe, felected from the BEST AUTHORS, for the Ex-
ercife of the Scholar in Reading and Declaiming.

For the USE of SCHOOLS.

Speech is the Morning of the Soul,

It Spreads the beauteous Images abroad,
Which elfe lie furled in the clouded Mind.

DRYDEN.

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Printed for JOHN BELL, (Succeffor to Mr. BATHOE) near
Exter Exchange, in the Strand; C. ETHERINGTON,
W. TESSEYMAN, J. TODD and H. SOTHERAN, and
D. PECK, Bookfellers in York. 1770.

To the READER.

THIS little Volume, calculated for the Ufe of
Schools, it is prefumed, will hardly stand in
Need of any other Recommendation than that
which it carries in it's Table of Contents.

It was not meant to give any Thing original
to the World; the only Praise which the Pub-
lishers afpire to, is that of having made a careful,
and, they hope, not an injudicious, Compilation.

The first Effay, however, is an Original from
the Pen of a Gentleman, who has been long prac-
tifed in the Art of Speaking.-The two next are
extracted from Works of established Credit.-As
for the large Collection of Examples, which makes
up the greatest Part of the Book, they have been
carefully felected from the beft Authors both in
Profe and Verfe: And we may venture to affirm,
that there is no Species of Utterance or Expression,
of which the human Frame is capable, but fome
or other of thefe Pieces will afford a juft Occafion
of employing it. The firft Object was to furnish a
proper Field of Exercife, to fuch as are studious
to accomplish themselves in the Arts of Reading
and Declaiming; yet at the fame Time fuch At-

tention

tention has been paid to the intrinfic Merit of the
Pieces admitted into this Collection, that we flat-
ter ourselves that it will ferve another and even
a more valuable Purpose, and will be found well
adapted to improve both the Understanding and
the Heart; to form the one to just Affections,
and to ftore the other with a Variety of agreeable
Ideas and ufeful Sentiments. There is fcarce a
Paper in the Book but will readily be acknow-
ledged, in respect both of Senfe and Style, to be
truly excellent in it's Kind; it holds up none but
the best Models to the Scholar; and if any one
fhould take it up for the Amusement of a leisure
Hour, in fo various a Collection it will not be dif-
ficult to find fomething correfpondent to his Tafte
and Humour,

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