AN 7830 ESSAY ON ELOCUTION: WITH ELUCIDATORY PASSAGES FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS. TO WHICH WILL BE ADDED, REMARKS ON READING PROSE AND VERSE: WITH SUGGESTIONS TO INSTRUCTORS OF THE ART. BY J. H. DWYER, LECTURER ON, AND TEACHER OF, ELOCUTION. SECOND EDITION. Lew-Work: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, AND SOLD BY G. & C. CARVILL AND E. BLISS. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY THE BEQUEST OF District of Ohio, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the thirty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and in the forty-ninth year of the American Independence, J. H. Dwyer, of said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author and proprietor in the words following, to wit: "An essay on Elocution, with elucidatory passages from various authors, to which will be added, remarks on reading prose and verse, with suggestions to instructors of the art. By J. H. Dwyer, lecturer on, and teacher of Elocution." In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States of America, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;" and also, of an Act, entitled, "An act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." Att. HARVEY D. EVANS, 2-6-86 PREFACE. THE following PAGES are dedicated 13 de Members of the New-York Bar. as a but mark of respect for their talent, and has f the very liberal manner in which the ETF DARY instrumental to the publication. nd en pinions of some who read those exercises, and for whose judgment and talents the writer, and the community at large, have a high respect. If eloquence, so diligently studied by persons of respectability in Europe, were duly appreciated in this country, its advantages would be so apparent, that wonder would arise that it should have remained so long without a proper place amid the general mass of information, so widely dis |