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The academic speaker or, a selection of parliamentary debates, orations, odes, scenes, and speeches, from the best writers. Proper to be read and recited by youth at school. To which are prefixed, elements of gesture; or plain and easy directions for keeping the body in a graceful position, and acquiring a simple and unaffected style of action. Epxlained [sic] and illustrated by plates. By John Walker, author of Elements of elocution, Rhyming dictionary, &c.

Title
The academic speaker [electronic resource] : or, a selection of parliamentary debates, orations, odes, scenes, and speeches, from the best writers. Proper to be read and recited by youth at school. To which are prefixed, elements of gesture; or plain and easy directions for keeping the body in a graceful position, and acquiring a simple and unaffected style of action. Epxlained [sic] and illustrated by plates. By John Walker, author of Elements of elocution, Rhyming dictionary, &c.
Publication
Dublin : printed for Messrs, [sic] Burnett, Byrne, Wogan, Rice, Moore, J. Jones, and W. Porter, 1796.

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Additional Authors
Walker, John, 1732-1807.
Description
[2],ii,[4],xix[i.e.xv],[1],270,[8]p.,plates; 12⁰.
Subject
  • Readers > Early works to 1800
  • Recitations > Early works to 1800
Genre/Form
Addresses.
Note
  • Compiled and edited by John Walker.
  • Pp.xiv-xv misnumbered xvi,xix.
  • Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
Indexed In (note)
  • English Short Title Catalog
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
  • 642145943
  • ECCO1-N15886
Title
The academic speaker [electronic resource] : or, a selection of parliamentary debates, orations, odes, scenes, and speeches, from the best writers. Proper to be read and recited by youth at school. To which are prefixed, elements of gesture; or plain and easy directions for keeping the body in a graceful position, and acquiring a simple and unaffected style of action. Epxlained [sic] and illustrated by plates. By John Walker, author of Elements of elocution, Rhyming dictionary, &c.
Imprint
Dublin : printed for Messrs, [sic] Burnett, Byrne, Wogan, Rice, Moore, J. Jones, and W. Porter, 1796.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, N15886.
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Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Place of Publication
Ireland Dublin.
Added Author
Walker, John, 1732-1807.
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