The 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 ... By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the Practical navigator and Seaman's new daily assistant
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[New York]
London: printed: New-York: re-printed by Hugh Gaine, at the Bible, in Hanover-Square
1790, M,DCC,XC. [1790]
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| Edition: | The sixth edition |
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | "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]. - Edition statement transposed; precedes "By J. Hamilton Moore .." on title page. - English Short Title Catalog, W17800. - Evans, 22676. - Reproduction of original from Library of Congress |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (vi,378,[40]p., iv leaves of plates) ill 12° |