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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

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General Observations on the Arts of Reading and Speaking, 9.

Accent,

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On the Reading or Recitation of different Species of Prose

and Poetry,

36

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Example of our Saviour,

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Importance of a serious examination of Christianity, Paley. 55

Religion contrasted with unbelief,

Anon.

56

Christianity an internal principle,

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Just distribution of Nature,

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The point of honor,

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The Corporal,

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Advantages of novelty,

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Pleasures of the imagination,

Addison. 64

Cultivation of memory,

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Diversity of views and passions,

A provision for the poor,

Golden age,

Responsibility of men of genius,

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General correctness of the public estimate of talents, Wirt. 72

Means of perpetuating the memory of the illustrious, Smith. 74.

Happiness,

National pride,

Literary retirement,

Declension of literary taste,

Addison's Spectator,

Thompson's Seasons,

Female education,

Eloquence,

Hints on the eloquence of the bar,

Art of printing,

Geography,

Passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge in Vir--

ginia,

Falls of Niagara,

Addison. 75

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H. K. White. 86

Port Folio. 87

ib.

88

Jefferson.

90

Anon.

91

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White Mountains in New-Hampshire,

Mount Etna,

Earthquakes,

Comets,

Apostrophe to the Ocean,

to the Sun,

Ruins of Palmyra,

Conflagration of a cottage,

Hamet, a tale,

Surrender of Lord Cornwallis,

SKETCHES OF CHARACTERS.

Character of Gen. Washington,

Alexander Hamilton,

Fisher Ames,

John Marshall,

Joseph Dennie,

Notice of Patrick Henry,

Sir Robert Boyle,

Character of William Pitt,

Edmund Burke,

Charles J. Fox,

John P. Curran,

Lord Clive,

Shakspeare's Othello,

SPECIMENS OF ELOQUENCE.

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Extract from Mr. Burke's Speech on conciliation with America, 141

debts,

on declining the election, 142

on Mr. Fox's East India Bill, 144

on the Nabob of Arcot's

147

on the trial of Lord Hastings, 150

Extract from Mr. Curran's Speech on the trial of Rowan, 151

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Extract from Mr. Curran's Speech on the trial of Finerty, 154

Extract from Mr. Wirt's Speech on the trial of Aaron Burr,

for high treason,

156

Extract from Mr. Russell's Oration on American Indepen-

dence,

160

Extract from a Sermon on the resurrection of our Sav-

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Perishing Traveller,

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Domestic happiness,

Influence of Spring on birds,

Extracts from the writings of H. K. White,

Dialogue,

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Congreve's Mourning Bride. 172

To the herb rosemary,

H. K. White. 174

Genius,

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Maternal affection,

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Hospitality,

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Scene from Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming,

178

Happy power of love, and advice to cherish it, Tighe. 180

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Mr. Cooke's address on the Philadelphia stage, Port Folio. 193

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