CONTAINING

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE PRINCIPLES

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READING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING.

ALSO

A SELECTION OF THE BEST PIECES FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN

AUTHORS, ACCOMPANIED BY EXPLANATORY NOTES.

THE WHOLE ADAPTED TO THE PURPOSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN

READING AND ORATORY.

BY SAMUEL NILES SWEET,
Counsellor at Law in the State and United States Couru.

NEW REVISED STEREOTYPE EDITION, WITH EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS

" Delivery bears absolute sway in Oratory."- Cicero.

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