IN ELOCUTION, OR, 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- ALSO, AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN. MONTPELIER, Vt. PUBLISHED BY E. P. WALTON, 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 9. The partial judge, ib. 64 10. The sick lion, the fox and the wolf, 11. Dishonesty punished, 12. The picture, ib. 66 13. The two bees, Dodsley's Fables, 66 14. Beauty and deformity, Perciva'ls Tales, 67 15. Remarkable instance of friendship, Art of Speaking, 68 |