19th Century Schoolbooks Collection

19th Century Schoolbooks Collection

Author:	Frost, John, 1800-1859
Title:	The American speaker: containing numerous rules, observations, and exercises on pronunciation, pauses, inflections, accent, and emphasis : also, copious extracts in prose and poetry, calculated to assist the teacher, and to improve the pupil in reading and recitation
Print source:	The American speaker containing numerous rules, observations, and exercises on pronunciation, pauses, inflections, accent, and emphasis : also, copious extracts in prose and poetry, calculated to assist the teacher, and to improve the pupil in reading and recitation Frost, John, 1800-1859 Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co, 1845, c1836
Publication Info:	Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library 2002
Availability:	This work is believed to be in the public domain with no known restrictions on access and use.
Subject terms:	Recitations. Elocution.
URL:	http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00acj4739m;view=toc;c=nietz

Contents

The American speaker: containing numerous rules, observations, and exercises on pronunciation, pauses, inflections, accent, and emphasis : also, copious extracts in prose and poetry, calculated to assist the teacher, and to improve the pupil in reading and recitation

Principles of Elocution

Accent and Emphasis

Rhetorical Pauses

Rules for Reading Verse

Select Extracts for Recitation

1. Religion Never to be Treated with Levity

2. Westminster Abbey

3. The Folly of Mispending Time

4. On the Comparative Merit of Homer and Virgil

6. Character of Mr. Pitt

7. The Truth Frees Us from the Slavish Fear of Death

8. Funeral Eulogium on Dr. Franklin

9. The Speech of a Roman Officer to his Soldiers

10. Song, from the Lady of the Lake

11. A Thought on Eternity

12. The Art of Criticism

13. Against Suicide

15. Speech of Richard Henry Lee in Congress, 5th of June, 1776, in Favour of the Declaration of Independence

16. Speech of Patrick Henry before the Virginia Convention of Delegates, March, 1775

17. Supposed Speech of John Adams in Favour of the Declaration of Independence

18. Specimen of the Eloquence of James Otis

19. Vindication of Spain (Pronounced During the Debate on the Seminole War, in Congress, 1819)

20. Close of an Oration on the Death of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

21. Great Effects Result from Little Causes

22. The Grave of the Indian Chief

23. To the Eagle

24. Hymn of the Moravian Nuns at the Consecration of Pulaski's Banner

25. Extract from a Speech of G. Morris, in Congress, on the Navigation of the Mississippi

26. Gen. Washington to his Troops (Delivered before the Battle of Long Island, 1776)

27. Extract from the Address of the American Congress to the Inhabitants of Great Britain, 1775

28. Character of Blannerhassett

29. Extract from Mr. Hayne's Speech in the Senate of the United States, 1830

30. National Glory

31. Marco Bozzaris

33. Speech of Salathiel in Favour of Resisting the Roman Power

34. Extract from a Speech of Patrick Henry in the Legislature of Virginia, in Favour of Permitting the British Refugees to Return to the United States

35. Extract from a Speech of John Randolph in the Convention of Virginia, in 1829-1830

36. Second Extract from the Same Author

37. The Torch of Liberty

38. Character of William Penn

39. Speech of a Christian Martyr

40. Property an Element of Society

41. What's Hallowed Ground?

42. Speech of Raab Kiuprili

43. Extract from a Speech of Mr. G. Morris on the Judiciary Establishment

44. Decision of Character

45. Bonaparte to the Army of Italy

46. On a Future State

47. On the Works and Attributes of the Almighty

48. On the Beauties of Nature

50. Extract from a Speech of James Wilson, in the Convention for the Province of Pennsylvania, in Vindication of the Colonies, January, 1775

51. The Soldier's Dream

53. Second Extract from the Same

54. Third Extract from the Same

55. Fourth Extract from the Same

56. Fifth Extract from the Same

57. The Battle of Busaco

58. Boadicea, an Ode

59. On the Downfall of Poland

60. On Ancient Greece

61. Loudhon's Attack. A Hungarian War-Song

62. The Day of Judgment

63. Extract from a Speech of Edmund Randolph on the Expediency of Adopting the Federal Constitution, Delivered in the Convention of Virginia, June 6, 1788

64. Second Extract from the Same

65. Third Extract from the Same

66. The Dying Chief

68. The Mariner's Dream

69. The American Patriot's Song

71. Extract from a Speech of Robert G. Harper, on the Necessity of Resisting the Aggressions and Encroachments of France, Delivered in the House of Representative, May 29, 1797

72. Song of Outalissi

73. The Burial of Sir John Moore

74. Battle Hymn

75. Extract from a Speech of James A. Bayard, on the Judiciary Act, Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, February 19, 1802

76. Extract from a Speech of John Randolph, in Committee of the Whole House of Representatives, on Mr. Gregg's Resolution to Prohibit the Importation of British Goods into the United States, March 5, 1806

77. Second Extract from the Same

78. Dress and Armour of Sir Hudibras

79. Description of Wyoming

80. Song of the Greek Bard

81. Description of the Minstrel

82. Description of Rome

84. Extract from a Speech of John Randolph, Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, December 10, 1811

85. Second Extract from the Same

86. A Farewell to Scotland

88. The Mariner's Song

89. Aspirations of Youth

90. The Homes of England

91. Extract from Roderick, The Last of the Goths

92. The African Chief

93. The Greek Partisan

94. Speech of John C. Calhoun, in the House of Representatives of the United States, December 12, 1811

95. Conclusion of the Same Speech

96. Song of Marion's Men

97. The Death of Aliatar

98. The American Eagle

99. My Own Fireside

100. The Indian Hunter

101. The Example of the Northern to the Southern Republics of America

102. Close of the Speech of Daniel Webster on the Greek Question, in the House of Representatives of the United States, January 1824

103. Mr. Poinsett's Speech on the Same Question

104. Conclusion of Mr. Clay's Speech on the Same Question

105. Extract from a Speech of John Randolph on the Same Question

106. Second Extract from the Same Speech

107. An Indian at the Burying-Place of his Fathers

108. The Treasures of the Deep

109. The Close of Autumn

110. The Coral Grove

111. Lord Byron's Last Verses

114. Extract from Mr. Webster's Speech, at the Dinner in Honour of the Memory of Washington, in the City of Washington, February 22, 1832

115. Extract From Mr. Hayne's Speech on the Tariff Bill, in Congress, January, 1832

116. The Mountain Church

117. The Mother and her Infants

118. Scene in the Burning of Rome by Nero

119. Extract from Mr. Webster's Speech on the Trial of J.F. Knapp

120. The Value of the Bible

121. The Pleasures and Pains of the Student

122. Mary Anna Gibbes; The Young Heroine of Stono

123. The First Crusaders before Jerusalem

124. James Oglethorpe

125. Address of Daniel Webster to the Survivors of the Battle of Bunker Hill, Delivered at the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument

126. The Patronage of Sovereigns

127. The Mothers of the West

128. Extract from the Partisan

129. Extent of Country not Dangerous to the Union

130. Extract from President Jefferson's Inaugural Address

132. Extract from Mr. M'Duffie's Speech on Corruption

133. On the Measure of the Irish Union

134. Speech of Robert Emmett, at the Close of his Trial for High Treason

135. Right of Discovery

136. Right of Cultivation

137. Mr. Clay's Speech on Occasion of Introducing his Public Lands Bill

138. Extract from Sir James M'Intosh's Speech on the Trial of M. Peltier

140. Speech on the Catholic Question

141. The Patriot's Hope

142. Character of True Eloquence

143. The Best of Classics

144. The Love of Country and of Home

145. No Excellence without Labour

146. The Passing of the Rubicon

147. To the American Flag

148. Influence of Great Actions Dependent on their Results

149. "A Political Pause"

150. Prevalence of War

151. Impressions Derived from the Study of History

152. Noble Burst of Judicial Eloquence. Delivered in the Celebrated Case of the King Against John Wilkes

153. Speech of Lord Chancellor Thurlow in the House of Lords, in Reply to the Duke of Grafton

154. Conduct of La Fayette in American Revolution

156. National Recollections the Foundation of National Character

157. Exposure to the Horrors of Indian Outrage

158. Arnold Winkelried

159. The Atheist and the Acorn

160. The Indian

161. The Three Black Crows

162. New England

163. Las Casas Dissuading from Battle

164. Character of La Fayette

165. The Same Subject Continued

166. Misconception

167. Character of Napoleon Bonaparte

168. Dialogue: Alexander the Great, and a Robber

169. Thanatopsis

170. The Diamond Ring

171. The Characters of Jefferson and Napoleon Contrasted

172. Conduct of La Fayette in the Revolution of 1830

173. A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months

174. Trial of Roaring Ralph

175. The Poor Scholar and Little Boy

176. Thomas of Torres

177. Last Scene of Thomas of Torres

180. The Village Lawyer

181. Scene from the Honey-Moon

182. Affected Madness

184. Scene from Oralloossa, in which the Inca Endeavours to Bring Back his Subjects to Their Allegiance

185. Colonel Arden. Rissolle

186. Scene from the Gladiator

188. Scene from Rienzi

189. Scene from Catiline

190. Scene from William Tell