The Young gentleman and lady's monitor, [electronic resource] : and English teacher's assistant: being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools ... By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the Practical navigator and Seaman's new daily assistant.
1790
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The Young gentleman and lady's monitor, [electronic resource] : and English teacher's assistant: being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools ... By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the Practical navigator and Seaman's new daily assistant.
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The sixth edition.
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[New York] : London: printed: New-York: re-printed by Hugh Gaine, at the Bible, in Hanover-Square, M,DCC,XC. [1790]
Place of Publication or Printing
United States -- New York -- New York.
Language
English
Description
vi,378,[40]p., iv leaves of plates : ill. ; 12⁰.
Note
Edition statement transposed; precedes "By J. Hamilton Moore .." on title page.
"Elements of gesture."--p. [379-406]. Taken from John Walker's Academic speaker. Includes "Rules for expressing, with propriety, the principal passions and humours which occur in reading and public speaking," extracted from James Burgh's Art of speaking.
Bookseller's advertisement, p. [413-418].
Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
"Elements of gesture."--p. [379-406]. Taken from John Walker's Academic speaker. Includes "Rules for expressing, with propriety, the principal passions and humours which occur in reading and public speaking," extracted from James Burgh's Art of speaking.
Bookseller's advertisement, p. [413-418].
Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
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Evans, 22676
English Short Title Catalog, W17800.
English Short Title Catalog, W17800.
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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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