OR, A
SELECTION OF PIECES,

IN

Prose and Verse,

FOR THE

Improvement of Youth

IN

READING :and SPEAKING.

BY WILLIAM SCOTT.

To which are prefixed,
ELEMENTS OF GESTURE.

Illustrated by
FOUR PLATES;—and RULES
For expressing with propriety the various
RASSIORS, &c. OF THE Mind.

ALSO, AN
APPENDIX,

CONTAINING
LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN.

Boston Edition :
PUBLISHED BY LINCOLN & EDMANDS,

No. 53 Cornhill.....1819.

William Greenough, Printer.

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INTRODUCTORY LESSONS.

Page.

1. ON the speaking of speeches at schools, Walker, 9

2. On the acting of plays at schools,

ibid. 16

3. Rules for expressing with propriety, the princi.

pal passions and humors, which occur in read-

ing or public speaking,

Burgh, 22

4. Rules respecting elocution,

Walker, 38

PART I. LESSONS IN READING.

ibid.

SECTION I.

1-5. Select sentences,

Art of Thinking, 481

6. The fox and the goat,

Dadšley's Fables, 52

7. The fox and the stork,

ibid.

53

8. The courts of death,

ibid.

54

9. T'he partial judge,

ibid.

ib.

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

ibid.

55

11. Dishonesty punished,

Kane's Hints,

ib.

12. The picture,

ibid. 56

13. The two bees,

Dodsley's Fables, ib.

14. Beauty and Deformity,

Percival's Tales, 57

15. Remarkable instance of friendship, Art of Speaking, *58

16. Dionysius and Damocles,

ib,

17. Character of Cataline,

Sallust, 59

18. Avarice and Luxury,

Speclator,

60

19. Hercules' Choice,

Tatller,

61

20. Will Honeycomb's Spectator,

Spectator, 63

21. On good breeding,

Chesterfielil,

22, Address to a young student,

Knox,

69

23. Advantages of, and motives to cheerfulness, Spectator, 71

SECTION II.

1. The bad reader,

Perciral's Tales, 75

2. Respect due to old age,

Spectator,

ib.

3. Piety to Goil recommende to the young, Blair, 76

4. Modesty and docility,

ibid.

5. Sincerity,

ibid.

ib.

6. Benevolence and humanity,

ibid.

78

7. Industry and application,

ibid.

79

8. Proper employment of time,

ibid.

80

The true patriot

Art of Thinking, 81

66

ib.

96

Page.

10. On contentment,

Spectator, 81

11. Needle work recommended to the ladies, ibid.

84

1. On pride,

Guardian,

86

13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus, Gibbon, 88

14. Character of Julius Cæsar,

Middleton,

15. On mispent time,

Guardian,

90

16. Character of Francis I.

Robertson, 93

17. The supper and grace,

Sterng

18. Rastic felicity,

ibid.

98

19. House of mourning,

ibid.

ib.

SECTION III.

1. The honour and advantages of a constant

adherence to truth,

Percival's Tales, 100

2. Impertinence.in discourse, Theophrastus,

ib.

3. Character of Addison as a writer, Žuhnson,

101

4. Pleasure and pain,

Spectator,

102

5. Sir Roger de Coverly's familj,

ibid.

104

6. The folly of inconsistent expectations, Aitkert,

106

7. Description of the vale of Keswick in

Cumberland,

108

8. Pity, an allegory,

Aitken,

111

9. Advantages of Commerce,

Spectator,

112

10. On public speaking,

ibid.

114

11. Advantages of history,

Hume,

116

12. On the immortality of the soul, Spectator,

118

13. The combat of the Horatii and the

Curiatii,

Lidy,

120

14. On the power of custom,

Spectator,

122

15. On pedantry,

Mirror,

124

16. The journey of a day-a picture of

human life,

Rambler,

126

Brown,

SECTION IV.

1. Description of the amphitheatre of Titus, Gibbon,

2. Reflections in Westminster Abbey, Spactator,

3. The character of Mary queen of Scots, Robertson,

4. The character of queen Elizabeth, Hume,

5. Charies. V's resignation of his dominions, Robertson,

6. Importance of virtue,

Price,

7. Address to art,

Harris,

8. Flattery,

Theophrastus,

9. The absent man,,

Spectator,

10. The Monk,

Sterne,

11. On the head dress of ladies,

Spectator,

12. On the present and future state,

ibid.

13. Uncle Toby's bevevolence,

Sterne,

14, Story of the siege of Calais,

Fool of Quality,

SECTION V.

Page.

1. On grace in writing,

Fitzborne's Letters, 156

2. On the structure of animals,

Spectator, 157

3. On natural and fantastical pleasures, Guardian, 160

4. The folly and madness of ambition illustrated, World, 164

5. Battle of Pharsalia and the death of Pompey, Goldsmith, 167

6. Character of king Alfred,

Hume,

172

7. Aukwardness in company,

Chesterfield, 173

8. Virtue man's highest interest,

Harris,

ib.

9. On the pleasure arising from objects of sight, Spectator, 175

10. Liberty and slavery,

Sterne, 177

11. The cant of Criticism,

ibid.

178

12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden, Fohnson, 179

13. The story of Le Fever,

Sterne, 180

SECTION VI.

1. The shepherd and the philosopher,

Gay,

188

2. Ode to Leven water,

Smollet, 189

3. Ode from the 19th Psalm,

Spectator, 190

4. Rural Charms,

Goldsmith, ib.

5. The painter who pleased nobody and every body, Gay, 191

6. Diversity in the human character,

Pope,

192

7. The toilet,

ibid. 194

8. T'he hermit,

Parnell, . ib.

9. On the death of Mrs. Mason,

Mason, 199

10. Extract from the temple of fame,

Pope,

ib.

11. A panegyrick on great Britain,

Thomson, 201

12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of the year, ibid. 203

ibid

212

SECTION VII.

1. The Cameleon,

Merrick,

206

2. On the order of nature,

Pope,

207

3. Description of a country alebouse, Goldsnath, 208

1, Character of a country schoolmaster,

ibid.

ib.

5. Story of Palemon and Lavinia,

Thomson,

209

6, Celadon and Amelia,

7. Description of Mab, queen of the Faries, Shakespeare, 213

8. On the existence of a Deity,