The new art of speaking, [electronic resource] : or, a complete modern system of rhetoric, elocution, and oratory; comprizing all the rules of those elegant arts; And including every Thing necessary to form the Persuasive and Accomplished Speaker, And to give Propriety not only to the Words but Actions of the Orator; with Examples of some of the most admired and celebrated Speeches and Orations, both Ancient and Modern. The Whole being particularly calculated to improve or refresh the Memories of the Right Honourable and Honourable Members of both Houses of Parliament; the reverend Gentlemen of the Church; Students designed for the Bar; Lecturers on Physical, Chemical, Chirurgical, Mathematical or any other Subjects, and all such of both Sexes as attend the public Disputations at The School for Eloquence The Palladium, or Liberal Academy of Eloquence, The Cassino, or Female Parliament, The Forum, The Oratorical Society, La Belle Assembleé, Apollo Society, held at Carlisle House Free Mason's Hall Great Marlborough Street Haymarket Mitre Tavern Fleet-Str. Haymarket Grafton Street, Soho Queen's Arms, Coachmakers Hall, Robin Hood, &c. &c. &c. Inscribed to the Hon. C. Fox, and E. Burke, Esq.
1785
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The new art of speaking, [electronic resource] : or, a complete modern system of rhetoric, elocution, and oratory; comprizing all the rules of those elegant arts; And including every Thing necessary to form the Persuasive and Accomplished Speaker, And to give Propriety not only to the Words but Actions of the Orator; with Examples of some of the most admired and celebrated Speeches and Orations, both Ancient and Modern. The Whole being particularly calculated to improve or refresh the Memories of the Right Honourable and Honourable Members of both Houses of Parliament; the reverend Gentlemen of the Church; Students designed for the Bar; Lecturers on Physical, Chemical, Chirurgical, Mathematical or any other Subjects, and all such of both Sexes as attend the public Disputations at The School for Eloquence The Palladium, or Liberal Academy of Eloquence, The Cassino, or Female Parliament, The Forum, The Oratorical Society, La Belle Assembleé, Apollo Society, held at Carlisle House Free Mason's Hall Great Marlborough Street Haymarket Mitre Tavern Fleet-Str. Haymarket Grafton Street, Soho Queen's Arms, Coachmakers Hall, Robin Hood, &c. &c. &c. Inscribed to the Hon. C. Fox, and E. Burke, Esq.
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London : printed for Alex. Hogg, No. 16, Pater Noster-Row, and sold also by most other Booksellers, [1785?]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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8,[1],14-148p.,plate ; 12⁰.
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With English versions of a number of "elegant orations".
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Price from imprint: price 2s. embellished with an elegant Frontispiece.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Braces in imprint.
Price from imprint: price 2s. embellished with an elegant Frontispiece.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T131315.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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