Lessons in Elocution/27

OR, A
SELECTION OF PIECES

IN

PROSE AND VERSE,

FOR THE
IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH

IN

READING AND SPEAKING,

AS WELL AS FOR THE

PERUSAL OF PERSONS OF. TASTE.

With an APPENDIX, containing
CONCISE LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN,

AND
PRINCIPLES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

o.co

B Y
WILLIAM SCOTT,
TEACHER OF ENGLISH, WRITING, AND ACCOUNTS, AND

AUTHOR OF A NEW SPELLING, PRONOUNCING, AN)
EXPLANATORY DICTIONARY, OF THE ENGLISH LAN•*
GUAGE, &c.

FIFTH EDITION,
CORRECTED AND IMPROVED,

Refiftles Etoquence
Wielded at will the fierce Democracy
Shook th' Arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' Throne.

MILTON

(Scott's

EDINBURGH:
Printed for CHARLES ELLIOT ;
And C. ELLIOT and T. KAY, LONDON,

MyDCC LXXXIX.

TE NEW YORK FU CLIC LIBRARY 332446A ASTOR, LENOX AND

TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

R 1927 L

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

G G E 0 R G E

EARL OF ERROLL, LORD HIGH CONSTABLE OF SCOTLAND:

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