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1. ON ELOCUTION. 11. ON READING WORKS OF TASTE.

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Late Lecturer on the Belles Lettres in the Academy at Warrington,

-Oculos, paulum tellure moratos,

Suftulit ad proceres; expectatoque refolvit
Ora fono; nec abett facundis gratia dictis.-OVID.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

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JOHN CARILL WORSLEY, Efq;

LATE PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY IN WARRINGTON.

SIR,

THIS work having been undertaken principally with the defign of affifting the Students at WARRINGTON in acquiring a just and graceful Elocution, I feel a peculiar propriety in addreffing it to you, as a Y public acknowledgment of the steady support which you have given to this Inftitution, and the important fervices which you have rendered it.

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In this Seminary, which was at first established, and has been uniformly conducted, on the extenfive plan of providing a proper courfe of Inftruction for young men in the most useful branches of Science and Literature, you have seen many refpectable characters formed, who are now filling up their stations in fociety with reputation to themselves, and advantage to the Public.

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And.

And, while the fame great object continues to be purfued, by faithful endeavours to cultivate the understandings of youth, and by a steady attention to difcipline, it is hoped, that you will have the fatisfaction to obferve the fame effects produced, and that the scene will be realized, which OUR POETESS has fo beautifully described:

When this, this little group their country calls
From academic fhades and learned halls,
To fix her laws, her fpirit to fuftain,

And light up glory thro' her wide domain;
Their various taftes in different arts difplay'd,
Like temper'd harmony of light and fhade,
With friendly union in one mass shall blend,
And this adorn the state, and that defend.

I am,

With fincere Respect and Gratitude,

DEAR SIR,

Your much obliged,

and moft obedient Servant,

WILLIAM ENFIELD.

Warrington Academy,

Stober 1, 1774.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE favourable Reception with which the Public has honoured THE SPEAKER, has induced the Editor to prefix to the prefent Edition, THE ESSAY ON ELOCUTION, corrected and enlarged; and an ESSAY ON READING WORKS OF TASTE, in which he has endeavoured to represent to young Perfons the Falue of the Study of Polite Literature, and to furnish them with a concise View of the fundamental Principles of Criticism. The Subject of the latter Effay he hopes for fome future Occafion of difcuffing more at large.

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