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 ne daily assistant.

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Publication Info[New London, Conn.] : London: printed: New-London: re-printed by Samuel Green, for Thomas C. Green, M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]
Description4 unnumbered pages, 396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 12⁰.
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Other author/creatorMoore, John Hamilton, -1807 compiler.
Other author/creatorGreen, Samuel, 1768-1859, printer.
Other author/creatorGreen, Thomas Clarke, 1765-1844, bookseller.
Other author/creatorWalker, John, 1732-1807 Academic speaker. Selections.
Other author/creatorBurgh, James, 1714-1775. Art of speaking. Selections.
General note"Elements of gesture."--p. 369-396. 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 noteReproduction of original from Library of Congress.
References Evans, 27345
References Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 1116
References Johnson, H.A. New London, 1279
References English Short Title Catalog, W21114.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Genre/formAnthologies.
Genre/formReaders.

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