Book II.Ch.2.part.

MARIA.

THE

SPEAKER:

OR,

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES,

Selected from the

BEST ENGLISH WRITERS,

And difpofed under proper Heads, with a View to facilitate

Oculos, paulum tellure moratos,

Suftulit ad proceres; expectatoque refolvit
Ora fono; nec abeft facundis gratia dictis. --- OVID.

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FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, LONDON;
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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE favourable reception, with which the public has bonoured THE SPEAKER, has induced the Editor to prefix to the prefent edition THE ESSAY ON ELOCUTION, corrected and enlarged; and an ESSAY ON READING WORKS OF in which he has endeavoured to reprefent to young perfons the value of the study of polite literature, and to furnish them with a concife view of the fundamental principles of criticifm.

TASTE,

This edition is also enriched with some extracts from Dr. DARWIN'S and the Rev. Mr. HURDIS's Poems, and fome original pieces written by W. CowPER, Efq. and is embellished with four copper-plates.

Thefe additions, as well as other pieces which have appeared in former editions, cannot be inferted in any editions of this work, but fuch as are printed by the original publisher,

J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

without fubjecting the vender to a profecution; every other edition must therefore neceffarily be incomplete.

This book being generally put into the hands of young perfons, particular care has been taken, to get the genuine editions accurately printed.

THIS work having been undertaken prin-
cipally with the defign of affifting the Stu-
dents at WARRINGTON in acquiring a juft
and graceful Elocution, I feel a peculiar pro-
priety in addreffing it to you, as a public ac-
knowledgment of the fteady fupport which
you have given to this inftitution, and the
important fervices which you have rendered
it.

In this Seminary, which was at first establifhed, and has been uniformly conducted, on the extenfive plan of providing a proper course of Instruction for young men in the most useful branches of Science and Literature, you have seen many refpectable characters formed, who are now filling up their ftations in fociety with reputation to themfelves, and advantage to the Public. And, while the fame great object continues to be purfued,

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