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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 [sic] and illustrated by plates. By John Walker, author of Elements of elocution, Rhyming dictionary, &c.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Readers--Early works to 1800.
- Readers.
- Recitations--Early works to 1800.
- Recitations.
- Genre:
- Addresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([2],ii,[4],xix[i.e.xv],[1],270,[8]p.,plates )
- Other Title:
- Academic speaker
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : printed for Messrs, [sic] Burnett, Byrne, Wogan, Rice, Moore, J. Jones, and W. Porter, 1796.
- Notes:
- Compiled and edited by John Walker.
- Pp.xiv-xv misnumbered xvi,xix.
- Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, N15886.
- OCLC:
- 642145943
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