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The Young gentleman and lady's monitor, [electronic resource] : 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 ne daily assistant.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth--Conduct of life.
- Youth.
- Genre:
- Anthologies.
- Readers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([4], 396, [8] p. )
- Other Title:
- Young gentleman and lady's monitor,
- Place of Publication:
- [New London, Conn.] : London: printed: New-London: re-printed by Samuel Green, for Thomas C. Green, M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]
- Notes:
- "Elements of gesture."--p. 369-396. 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.
- Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 27345
- Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 1116
- Johnson, H.A. New London, 1279
- English Short Title Catalog, W21114.
- OCLC:
- 511076704
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