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.

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EditionThe sixth edition.
Publication Info[New York] : London: printed: New-York: re-printed by Hugh Gaine, at the Bible, in Hanover-Square, M,DCC,XC. [1790]
Descriptionvi, 378, 40 unnumbered pages, iv leaves of plates : illustrations ; 12⁰.
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Other author/creatorMoore, John Hamilton, -1807 compiler.
Other author/creatorWalker, John, 1732-1807 Academic speaker. Selections.
Other author/creatorBurgh, James, 1714-1775. Art of speaking. Selections.
Other author/creatorGaine, Hugh, 1726 or 1727-1807 printer.
General noteEdition statement transposed; precedes "By J. Hamilton Moore .." on title page.
General note"Elements of gesture."--p. [379-406]. 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.
General noteBookseller's advertisement, p. [413-418].
General noteReproduction of original from Library of Congress.
References Evans, 22676
References English Short Title Catalog, W17800.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Genre/formReaders.
Genre/formAnthologies.
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements New York (State) New York.

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