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Remarks on reading Prose, Verse, and blank Verse,
Suggestions to Instructors of the Art of Elocution,
Select Sentences,

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CAUSES OF BAD READING AND SPEAKING.

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Too slightly sounding the accented Vowels,...
Too slightly sounding the unaccented Vowels,..
Wavering pronunciation of the Vowels under the secondary

...Dwyer.

Ibid.

559

accent,

Ibid.

60

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The liquid sound of K, C, or G hard, before the Vowels
A and I,......

Ibid.

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Not sounding the H where it ought to be sounded, and

the reverse,

Ibid.

62

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Improper pronunciation of the words for, from and by,. Ibid.
Tribute of respect to the Memory of Noah Webster,.... Ibid.
Observations on the pronunciation of certain words
frequently mistaken in reading or speaking,
When you
is to be pronounced like ye, and my like me,. Ibid.
On the pronoun my,
When of, for, from and by, are to have a long, and when a
short sound,.

...Ibid.

Ibid.

How to pronounce the possessive pronoun thy,........ Ibid.
How to pronounce the adjective possessive pronoun,
mine,
Improper and indistinct pronunciation of the word, not,. Ibid.
Improper pronunciation of the terminating ing,
Improper pronunciation of the word to.....

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Ibid.

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ELOQUENCE OF RELIGION.

The Saviour's Sermon on the Mount,

I. Corinthians, XV. Chapter,

Paul's Defence before Agrippa, .

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Extract from the XIV. Chapter of Job,.

Character of a Christian Mother,... By Rev. W. B. Kirwan.

Character of a Christian Wife,..

Character of a Libertine,..

The Miser,.......

Advice to parents,.

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ELOQUENCE OF THE BAR.

The Cause of the King against the Honourable Mr. Justice

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Extract from an Oration, delivered in the New-York Forum,
April, 1821,......

Lord Chatham's Speech against arming the Savages, in 1778,

On Slander,

Rolla's Address,

Brutus' Harangue on the death of Cæsar,
Antony's Oration over Cæsar's Body,....
Eulogy pronounced at the city of Washington,

1826,

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Description of Gen. Conway's situation on the Repeal of the

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A Speech delivered at Cheltenham, on the 7th October, 1819,
at the Fourth Anniversary of the Gloucester Missionary
Society,

On Education,

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SUBJECTS DESCRIPTIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS.

The Self Inflicting Torments of the Gamester...... Godwin. 187

A Description of the field of Battle, where Varus the Roman
General and his Army, had been destroyed by Armineus;
also of the Tribute of respect paid by Germanicus and his
Legions, to the scattered and unburied tones of their
slaughtered countrymen,

Eulogy on General Washington,.

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On General La Fayette's Reception in the United States,

in 1824,

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Interview between Fitz-James and the Lady of the

Lake,.

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