The academic speaker : or, a selection of parliamentary debates, orations, odes, scenes, and speeches, from the best writers. Proper to be read and recited by youth at school. To which are prefixed, elements of gesture; or plain and easy directions for keeping the body in a graceful position, and acquiring a simple and unaffected style of action. Epxlained and illustrated by plates. By John Walker, author of Elements of elocution, Rhyming dictionary, &c.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walker, John, 1732-1807.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Readers--Early works to 1800.

Readers.

Recitations--Early works to 1800.

Recitations.

Genre:

Addresses.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages,ii pages, 4 unnumbered pages,xix, that is, xv pages, 1 unnumbered page,270 pages, 8 unnumbered pages,plates ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

Dublin : printed for Messrs, Burnett, Byrne, Wogan, Rice, Moore, J. Jones, and W. Porter, 1796.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Compiled and edited by John Walker.

Pp.xiv-xv misnumbered xvi,xix.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N15886.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.