porter ebenezer d d (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Original full calf binding with gilt lettering on spine, partially rubbed away. Boards are scuffed and marked, tips exposed, and one corner is damaged. Pages are greatly foxed, and there are a few pencil markings on endpapers, but not in the text itself. There is some evidence of historical dampstain on the top edge of the pages. This book provides a method of inflection while speaking or reading aloud, followed by exercises in articulation, which include a number of readings. Two-hundred and twentieth edition, with an appendix. Hardcover, acceptable condition. 304 pages, 12mo.

Original brown leather boards. Zustand: Fair. 4th Edition. Fourth edition. Chapters include reading, articulation, tones and inflections, accent, emphasis, modulation, rhetorical action; also contains numerous 'familiar pieces' for practice. Also published in Boston by Crocker & Brewster and in New York by J. Leavitt, "for sale by them"; other locations listed. Inked owner's name, other pencil and ink notes. 404 pages. Very well worn but intact and readable. Hinges cracked but holding, pages spotted and stained.

Zustand: Very Good. Octavo (in 4's) paper covers 30pp - very slight toning (SABIN 6423 lists only 2 locations Harvard & Philadelphia Library). *An uplifting sermon but somewhat intolerant in asserting that "The Professors of this Institution . are at perfect liberty to renounce these opinions . but in that case, they are bound, as honest and honourable men, to relinquish their present station". Porter was later appointed President of the Andover Theological Seminary, which shared its campus with Phillips Academy, and was founded in 1807 by orthodox Calvinists who had fled Harvard College after it appointed a liberal Unitarian theologian to a professorship of divinity. The Seminary was independent from Phillips Academy but shared the same board of directors (Wikipedia). 1 volume. Softcover.