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Lessons in elocution: or, A selection of pieces in prose and verse, For the improvement of youth in reading and speaking, as well as for the perusal of persons of taste. With an appendix, containing the principles of English Grammar. By William Scott, teacher of English, writing, and accounts.
Scott, William, 1750-1804.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
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A singer of tales called Rinaldo, performing to an audience of men seated around him: he reads the story from a book and makes gestures with a stick. Coloured lithograph by Gatti & Dura after Gaet. Dura.
Dura, Gaetano.Reference: 32451i- Books
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The Columbian orator: containing a variety of original and selected pieces; together with rules; calculated to improve youth and others in the ornamental and useful art of eloquence. By Caleb Bingham, A.M. author of The American preceptor, Young lady's accidence, &c. [Three lines from Rollin] Published according to act of Congress.
Bingham, Caleb, 1757-1817.Date: May, 1797- Books
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Lessons in elocution: or, a selection of pieces in prose and verse, for the improvement of youth in reading and speaking; as well as for the Perusal of Persons of Taste. With an appendix, containing, Concise Lessons on a New Plan, and Principles of English Grammar. By William Scott, Teacher of English, Writing, and Accounts, and Author of a New Spelling, Pronouncing, and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language, &c.
Scott, William, 1750-1804.Date: 1799- Books
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The reader, or reciter: by the assistance of which any person may teach himself to read or recite English prose With The Utmost Elegance And Effect. To which are added, instructions for reading plays. ON A Plan Never Before Attempted.
Date: 1799