The Columbian Reader: Comprising a New and Various Selection of Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, for the Use of Schools in the United States, to which is Prefixed an Introduction on the Arts of Reading and Speaking |
Contents
General Observations on the Arts of Reading and Speaking | ix |
Delineation of some of the most powerful passions | xxviii |
On the Reading or Recitation of different Species of Prose | xxxvi |
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