CONTENTS.

1.

INTRODUCTORY LESSONS.

N the speaking of speeches at schools, Walker,

of phage school,

Page.

9

ib.

20

2.

3. Rules for expressing with propriety, the prin-

cipal passions and humors, which occur in

reading or public speaking,

Burgh,

Rules respecting elocution,

Walker,

10. On contentment,

Spectator,

97

11. Needle-work recommended to the ladies, ib.

100

12. On pride,

Guardian,

102

13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus,

14. Character of Julius Cesar,

Gibbon,

104

Middleton,

105

15. On mis-spent time,

Guardian,

106

16. Character of Francis I.

Robertson,

110

17. The supper and grace,

Sterne,

113

18. Rustic felicity,

ib.

115

19. House of mourning,

12. On the immortality of the soul, Spectator,

3. The character of Mary, queen of Scots,

4. The character of queen Elizabeth,

5. Charles V's. resignation of his dominions,

6. Importance of virtue,

7. Address to art,

8. Flattery,

Theophrastus,

167

9. The absent man,

Spectator,

168

10. The Monk,

Sterne,

170

the year,

ib.

237

7. Description of Mab, queen of the fairies, Shakespeare,

8. On the existence of a Deity,

247

Young,

248

9. Evening in paradise described,

Milton,

ib.

10. Elegy written in a country church yard,

11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her

lover,

12. Humorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot,

of the impertinence of scribblers,

13. Hymn to adversity,

Gray,

255

14. The Passions-An ode,

8. Overthrow of the rebel angels,

9. Alexander's feast, or the power of music, Dryden,

275

PART II-LESSONS IN SPEAKING.

SECTION I.

ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT.

1. On truth and integrity,

Tillotson,

278

2. On doing as we would be done unto, Atterbury,