ORATORIA; OR, THE ACADEMIC ORATOR: Consisting of a Diversity of Dratorical Selections, APPERTAINING TO EVERY CLASS OF PUBLIC ORATIONS. APPOSITELY ARRANGED, and calculated For the Use of Schools and Academies. To which is prefixed, A DISSERTATION ON ORATORICAL PRONUNCIATION or ACTION; mostly abstracted from "Professor Ward's System of Oratory. BY J. H. RICE. At the Office of J. Drakard, High-Street, Stamford, Price Five Shillings bound. ADVERTISEMENT. In the following selections the pieces are ranked under apposite classes, in a consistency with the ancient rhetorical distribution of public orations, and the different kinds of public speaking in use among the moderns. The compilation, in the whole, comprehends a large diversity of productions, ancient and modern, appertaining to the different classes of public orations, called the DEMONSTRATIFS, the DELIBERATIVE, and the JUDICIAL, and to the prinsipal kinds of oratory which respectively obtain in the PULPIT, and of the THEATRE. " |