Teacher of Elocution at the Birkenhead Mechanics' Institution ;
Editor of “Gawthrop's Journal,” “ The Heart's Tongue,"

Author of “Essay on Study," &c.

“View the patriot's hand on high,
Thunder gathering on his brow;
Lightning flashing from his eye,
Borne by the tide of words along;
One voice-one mind, inspire the throng."

LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.

BIRKENHEAD: W. OSBORNE.

MDCCCXLVII.

BY HIS ONCE ADMIRING PUPIL, AND NOW ATTACHED FRIEND,

CONTENTS.

PROSE.

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Page

Remarks on Oratory

Editor 1

The Perfect Orator

Sheridan 11

Advice to an Affected Speaker

La Bruyere 12

On the Elocution of the Pulpit

Rev. James Fordyce 13

Hamlet's Address to the Players

Shakspeare 15

On Study

Editor 16

Contemplation of the Heavens

Gurney 18

Evils of Superstition

W. Pitt, (Earl of Chatham) 19

Geology

Gurney 21

Hunter's Oration

Chevalier 23

On Limited Monarchy

Sir R. Peel 25

The British Nation

D. O'Connell 27

The Broken Heart

Washington Irving 29

Phrenology

Editor 32

The Horrors of Feudalism and the Effects of Revolution..Ibid 34

The Indian Warrior's Defence

36

Junius Brutus over the Deady Body of Lucretia Livy 38

The Speech of Brutus on the Death of Cæsar .... Shakspeare 40

The Miseries of the Court

Lord Brougham 42

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