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IN

ELOCUTION,

OB,

A SELECTION OF PIECES,

IN PROSE AND VERSE,

FOR THE

IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH

IN

READING AND SPEAKING,

BY WILLIAM SCOTT.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

ELEMENTS OF GESTURE,

ILLUSTRATED BY FOUR PLATES; AND RULES FOR EXPRES-
SING, WITH PROPRIETY, THE VARIOUS
PASSIONS OF THE MIND.

ALSO,

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN.

MONTPELIER, Vt.

PUBLISHED BY E. P. WALTON,
1820.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF THE

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION MAY 19 1926

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY LESSONS.

Page.

1. ON the speaking of speeches at schools, Walker, 11
2. On the acting of plays at schools,

ib. 21

3. Rules for expressing with propriety the prin-
cipal passions and humours, which oc-

cur in reading or public speaking, Burgh, 28

4. Rules respecting elocution,

Walker, 46

PART I.-LESSONS IN READING.

SECTION I.

1. to 5. Select sentences,

6. The fox and the goat,

7. The fox and the stork,

8. The court of death,

9. The partial judge,

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

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14. Beauty and deformity,

Dodsley's Fables, 66
Perciva'ls Tales, 67
Art of Speaking, 68

15. Remarkable instance of friendship,

16. Dionysius and Damocles,

17. Character of Cataline,

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ib.

68

Sallust, 69
Spectator, 70

Tattler, 71
Spectator, 74

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