The new art of speaking, or, a complete modern system of rhetoric, elocution, and oratory; comprizing all the rules of those elegant arts; And including every Thing necessary to form the Persuasive and Accomplished Speaker, And to give Propriety not only to the Words but Actions of the Orator; with Examples of some of the most admired and celebrated Speeches and Orations, both Ancient and Modern. The Whole being particularly calculated to improve or refresh the Memories of the Right Honourable and Honourable Members of both Houses of Parliament; the reverend Gentlemen of the Church; Students designed for the Bar; Lecturers on Physical, Chemical, Chirurgical, Mathematical or any other Subjects, and all such of both Sexes as attend the public Disputations at The School for Eloquence The Palladium, or Liberal Academy of Eloquence, The Cassino, or Female Parliament, The Forum, The Oratorical Society, La Belle Assembleé, Apollo Society, held at Carlisle House Free Mason's Hall Great Marlborough Street Haymarket Mitre Tavern Fleet-Str. Haymarket Grafton Street, Soho Queen's Arms, Coachmakers Hall, Robin Hood, &c. &c. &c. Inscribed to the Hon. C. Fox, and E. Burke, Esq.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elocution--Early works to 1800.

Elocution.

Oratory--Early works to 1800.

Oratory.

Rhetoric--Early works to 1800.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8,[1],14-148p.,plate )

Other Title:

New art of speaking,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Alex. Hogg, No. 16, Pater Noster-Row, and sold also by most other Booksellers, [1785?]

Notes:

With English versions of a number of "elegant orations".

Braces in imprint.

Price from imprint: price 2s. embellished with an elegant Frontispiece.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T131315.

OCLC:

642366209