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The Young gentleman and lady's monitor, and English teacher's assistant : being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions; direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. : Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools ... / By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the Practical navigator and Seaman's new daily assistant.

Other author/creatorMoore, John Hamilton, -1807, compiler.
Included WorkWalker, John, 1732-1807 Academic speaker. Selections.
Included WorkBurgh, James, 1714-1775. Art of speaking. Selections.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[New London, Conn.] : London: printed: New-London: re-printed by Samuel Green, for Thomas C. Green, M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]
Description4 unnumbered pages, 396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (12mo)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 27345. ^A478749
General note"Elements of gesture."--p. 369-396. Taken from John Walker's Academic speaker. Includes "Rules for expressing, with propriety, the principal passions and humours which occur in reading and public speaking," extracted from James Burgh's Art of speaking.
References Evans 27345
References Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 1116
References Johnson, H.A. New London, 1279
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 27345).
Genre/formAnthologies.
Genre/formReaders.

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