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 EXPRESSING
WITH PROPRIETY, THE VARIOUS PASSIONS, &e. OF THE MIND.

ALSO,

APPENDIX,

TAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN.

From the last revised edition.

CONCORD, N. H.

PRINTED BY HILL AND MOORE,

AND SOLD BY THEM AT THE FRANKLIN BOOKSTORE.
Sold also by all the principal booksellers.

THE NEW YORK

PUBLIC LIBRARY 163638

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1899.

CONTENTS.

1.

2.

INTRODUCTORY LESSONS.

the speaking of speeches at schools,

On the acting of plays at schools,

Walker,

ib.

3. Rules for expressing with propriety the principal passions and humors

which occur in reading or public speaking,

4 Rules respecting elocution,

Burgh,

Walker,

SECTION III.

Page.

1. The honor and advantage of a constant adherence to

truth,

2. Impertinence in discourse,

Percival's Tales.

Theophrastus,

109

110

3. Character of Addison as a writer,

Johnson,

ib.

4. Pleasure and Pain,

Spectator,

112

5. Sir Roger de Coverly's family,

6. The folly of inconsistent expectations,

7. Description of the vale of Keswick, in Cumberland,

8. Pity, an allegory,

Aitkin,

121

9. Advantages of Commerce,

Spectator,

123

10. On public speaking,

ib.

125

11. Advantages of History,

12. On the immortality of the soul,

13. The combat of the Horatii and the Curiatii,

Livy,

131

14. On the power of custom,

Spectator,

133

15. On pedantry,

Mirror,

-135

16. The journey of a day; a picture of human life,

Speeches on various subjects.

1. Romulus to the people of Rome, after building the city,

2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus,

3. Scipio's reply,

4. Calisthenes' reproof of Cleon's flattery to Alexander,

5. Caius Marius to the Romans,

6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army,

7. Hannibal to the Carthaginian army,

283

287

290