JOHN CARILL WORSLEY, ESQ ! .is LATE PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY IN WARRINGTON. SIR, Tuis work having been undertaken principally with the design of assisting the Students ) at WARRINGTON in acquiring a just and , graceful Elocution, I feel a peculias propriety o in addressing it to you, as a public acknowoleilgment of the stearly support which you have given: : to this Institution, and the important ! services which you have rendered it. In this Seminary, which was at first established, and has been uniformly conducted, on the extensive plan of providing a proper course of Instruction for young men in the most useful: branches of Science and Litera. ture, you have seen many respectable charac. ters formed, who are now filling up their stations in society witla-reputation to themselves, and advantage to the Public. And, while the same great object continues to be pursued, by faithful endeavours to cultivate the understandings of youth, and by a steady attention to discipline, it is hoped, that you will have the satisfaction to observe the same effects produced, and that the scene will be realized, which OUR POETESS has so beautifully de. scribed: When this, this little group their country calls Like ten per'd harmony of light and shade, ain With friendly union in one mass shall blend, And this adorn the staie, and that defenda I am, With sincere Respect and Gratitude, DEAR SIR, WILLIAM ENFIELD. i The Dervise Spectator 38 16 Celadon and Amelia 3 Ararice and Luxury Ib. 4017 Junio and Theana 4 Pleasure and Pain ...... Ib. 41 5 Labour ................ World 43 18 Douglas to Lord Randolph Ib. 44|19 Othello's Apology Shaks. 71 7 Hercules' Choice ... Tatler 45 20 Æveas bearing his Father & Pity .......... Mrs. Barbauld 47 from the Flames of Troy Ib. 51 21 The parting of Hector and 11 Mária ., ........ Ib. 52 Andromache 12 The Chamelion ... Merrick 57 13 The Youth and the Philo 22 The Progress of Discontent Pope 60123 The Modern Rake's Pro- ....... BOOK 3.- DIDACTIC PIECES. 1 On Modesty ... Spectator 841 8 On Good Sense ..Melmoth 101 3 On Sincerity Tillotson 8910 On Satirical Wit ... Sterne 103. 4 On Honour Guardian 91 11 Hamlet's Instructions to Rambler94 12 The present Condition of 6 On the Knowledge of the Man vindicated ... Pope 105 World .... ...... Ib. 9713 On the Order of Nature On the Advantage of uni- 16. 107 ting Gentleness of Man 14 The Origin of Supersti. Pope 113 23 On Procrastination. Young 125. 17. On Versification ..... Ib. 115 24 The pain arising from Armstrong 116 tended with Pleasure 20 Elegy to a Young Noble 26 The Pleasures arising Mason 121 from a cultivated Ima- Thomson. 122/27 Panacea; or, the Grand State ....... Ib. 1231 man Life BOOK 4.-ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES. BOOK 5.-ORATIONS AND FARANGUES. 7 Junius Brutus over the 7. The Earl of Arundel's. 3 C. Marius to the Romans, 8. Mr. Pulteney's Speech on the Expedition against 9 Sir John St. Aubin's Speech for repealing the Sallus& 150 10 Sur Robt. Walpole's Reply 172 4 Calisthenes' Reproof of 11 Lord. Lyttelton's Speech. Q. Curtius 153 called the Jew Bill, in dors to Alexander ... Ib. 154 12 142 Praise of Virtue.. Price 180 6 Galgacus, the General of 13. The Speech of Brutus on |