Reseña del editor
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1775. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... TO All Masters and Mistresses of Academies and Boarding Schools* T HAVE observed, since I first published . my thoughts on the subject of elocution, that you have all, in your several advertisements, made the teaching of the art of reading and speaking English correctly, a material branch of your profession. But it appears to me that this art, like all others, can never be taught with success, unless a proper method of instruction be first prepared, from its first simple elements, to their most extended combinations. This is so far from being the case at present, that all attempts hitherto made in that way, 8 lead lead only to confusion and crrour. To enable you therefore to proceed hereafter upon sure grounds, in the prosecution of this your laudable design, is one main end proposed by the publication of the following work as you will be enabled thereby to correct all errours in such of your pupils as are natives of England, and place them in the right way of obtaining a just delivery. .But as I wish that this art, of which I may without boasting claim the credit of being the inventor, may be rendered as extensively useful as possible, I intend that the present work shall shortly be followed by a Rhetorical Grammar and Pronouncing Dictionary; by the aid of which, all foreigners and provincials may not only acquire a just pronunciation, but a proper delivery of our language; insomuch that a uniformity in both articles, will be the necessary consequence of i of teaching English according to the method there laid down, in every part of the globe, whether in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the several counties in England, the colonies, or foreign countries. Ae perspicuity has been my chief point in view in the following work, I have endeavoured to write in as plain and s...
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