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The art of speaking. : Containing, I. An essay; in which are given rules for expressing properly the principal passions and humours, which occur in reading, or public speaking; and II. Lessons taken from the ancients and moderns (with additions and alterations where thought useful) exhibiting a variety of matter for practice; the emphatical words printed in italics; with notes of direction referring to the essay. : To which are added, a table of the lessons, and an index of the various passions and humours in the essay and lessons. : [Three lines in Latin from Cicero].
Evans Digital Edition Connect to full text, no. 28373 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burgh, James, 1714-1775, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 28373.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oratory.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 pages, 14 unnumbered pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at Boston, : by Thomas Hall, for James White, Court Street, and Ebenezer Larkin, Cornhill., MDCCXCV. [1795]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Attributed to James Burgh in the Dictionary of national biography.
- Errors in paging: pages 122 numerals inverted; pages 134 misnumbered 431.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 28373).
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- Evans 28373
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- Restricted for use by site license.
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