Examiner


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The Examiner


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English as a Global Language


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Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.







Lessons in Elocution; Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking, ... with an Appendix, Containing the Principles of English Grammar


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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ National Library of Scotland T205513 With two final advertisement leaves. Edinburgh: printed for C. Elliot; and T. Longman, and G. Robinson, London, 1784. 410, [4]p.; 12°




Lessons in Elocution


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Lessons in Elocution, 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


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Excerpt from Lessons in Elocution, 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 Men commonly owe their virtue or their vice to edu cation as much as to nature. There is no fuch fop as my young mailer of his lady mother's making. She blows him up with {elf-conceit, and there he flops. She makes a man of him at twelve, and a boy all his life after. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.