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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 examples of the principal figures of speech and emotions of the mind. / By William Scott, teacher of English reading, and author of A new spelling and pronouncing dictionary, andc.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21451.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elocution.
- Genre:
- Anthologies.
- Readers.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 14-396 pages)
- Edition:
- The first American edition, from the fourth British edition, greatly altered and improved. [Four lines from Milton].
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed by W. Young, bookseller and stationer, at the corner of Chesnut and Second-Streets., M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Compiled by Scott from the work of others.
- Preface dated: Edinburgh, Nov. 1. 1786.
- Error in paging: pages iv misnumbered vi.
- Bookseller's advertisements, pages [xi-xii].
- 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 21451).
- Cited in:
- Evans 21451
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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