The English Reader; or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best Authors. Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; to Improve Their Language and Sentiments; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principle of Piet…

252 pp. The English Reader; or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best Authors. Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; to Improve Their Language and Sentiments; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principle of Piety and Virtue. To Which is Prefixed a Key to the Modulations of the Voice, Illustrating the Principles of the Infections of the Voice, the Circumflex, Emphasis, and the Monotone, by Sensible Characters. The Principles are Defined, and Their Application to the Reading of Every Kind of Sentence in the Language, Determined by a Few Easy Rules; and They are Also Applied by Their Appropriate Sensible Characters, to Many of Mr. Murray's Selections, as Well as to a Variety of Additional Exercises.