LESSONS IN ELOCUTION,

OR, A

SELECTION OF PIECES,

IN

PROSE AND VERSE,

FOR THE

IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH

IN

READING & SPEAKING.

BY WILLIAM SCOTT.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

ELEMENTS OF GESTORE.

ILLUSTRATED BY FOUR PLATES; AND RULES FOR
EXPRESSING WITH PROPRIETY, THE VARIOUS

PASSIONS, &C. OF THE MIND.

ALSO, AN

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN.

LEICESTER :
PRINTED BY HORI BROWN,

18207

160635 CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY LESSONS.

Page:

1.

2. On the acting of plays at schools,

16.

20

3. Rules for expressing with propriety, the prin-

cipal passions and humors, which occur in

reading or public speaking,

28

Rules respecting elucution,

IYalker,

46

PART 1. LESSONS IN READING.

SECTION 1.

66

1. to 5. Select sentences,

Art of Thinking, 57

6. The fox and the goat,

62

Dodsley': l'ubles,

7. The fox and the stork,

16.

63

8. The court of death,

ib.

64

9. The partial judge,

ió.

65

10. The sick lion, the fox and the wolf,

ib.

ib.

11. Dishonesty punished,

Kane's hints,

12. The picture,

ib.

ib.

13. The two bees,

Dodsley's Fables, 67

14. Beauty and deformity.

Percival'o Tales, ib.

15. Remarkable mstance of friendship, vrt of Speaking, 68

16. Dionysius and Damocles,

ib.

69

17. Character of Catalire,

Sallust,

18. Avarice and Luxury,

Spectator,

71

19. Hercules' choice,

Tarler,

72

20. Will Honeycomb's Spectatoi, Spectator,

75

21. On gocd breeding,

Chesterfieid,

78

22. Address to a young student,

Knox,

81

23. Advantages of and motives to cheerfulness, Spectałcr, 84

70