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Young gentleman and lady’s monitor, 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 and academies as well as private persons, who have not an opportunity of perusing the works of those celebrated authors, from whence this collection is made : divided into small portions for the ease of reading in classes / by J. Hamilton Moore ... Edit

Abstract

Publisher: [New-York] : London printed, New-York reprinted by Hugh Gaine, at the Bible, in Hanover-square, 1792.
Description: [4], 368, [40] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Notes: Includes "Elements of gesture" (p. [381]-[408]), taken from John Walker’s Academic speaker, and "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.; Paul G. Chandler Textbook Collection.; The seventh edition.