William Scott 
Lessons in Elocution [PDF ebook] 
Or a Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. E locution has, for some years past, been an oh ject of attention in the must respectable schools in this country. A laudable ambition of instructing youth, in the pronunciations nd’ delivery of their native language, has made English speeches a very conspicuous part of those exhibitions of oratory, which do our seminaries of learning so much credit.