The Young gentleman and lady's monitor, and English teacher's assistant: being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers; calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions; direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. : Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools ... / By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the Practical navigator and Seaman's new daily assistant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, John Hamilton, -1807, compiler.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37992.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Conduct of life.

Youth.

Genre:

Readers.

Anthologies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 368 pages, 2 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New-York: : Printed by James Oram, numbers 192, Water-Street, for the booksellers., 1800.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

"Elements of gesture."--p. [335]-368. Taken from John Walker's Academic speaker. Includes "Rules for expressing, with propriety, the principal passions and humours which occur in reading and public speaking," extracted from James Burgh's Art of speaking.

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 37992).

Cited in:

Evans 37992

Contains:

Walker, John, 1732-1807. Academic speaker. Selections.

Burgh, James, 1714-1775. Art of speaking. Selections.

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