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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,
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME
PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON.

Price Five Shillings bound.

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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.

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