The School Reader. Fifth Book. Designed as a Sequel to Sanders' Fourth Reader. Part First, Containing Full Instructions in the Rhetorical Principles of Reading or Speaking, Illustrated by Numerous Examples. Part Second, Consisting of Elegant Extracts in …

xii, 456 pp. The School Reader. Fifth Book. Designed as a Sequel to Sanders' Fourth Reader. Part First, Containing Full Instructions in the Rhetorical Principles of Reading or Speaking, Illustrated by Numerous Examples. Part Second, Consisting of Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry from Various Eloquent Writers, Accompanied with Notes, Explanatory of Such Historical or Classical Allusions, as the Several Lessons Contain. For the Use of Academies and the Highest Classes in Common and Select Schools. CONTENTS: Part First -- Rhetorical Principles: Elocution; 1. Articulation--Nature of the Elemental Sounds, Divisions of Elemental Sounds; 2. Articulation -- Directions for Expressing Elemental Sounds, Table of Elemental Vowel Sounds, Table of Elemental Consonant Sounds, Table of Vocal and Aspirate Consonants, Correlatives, & the Organs used in Uttering Consonant Sounds; 3. Articulation -- Syllables, Words, and Sentences, Difficult Combinations of Consonant Sounds, Accent, Primary and Secondary, Examples for Exercises in Articulation; 4. Emphasis; 5. Inflections of the Voice; 6. General Rules for the Use of Inflections; 7. Modulation; 8. Expression; 9. Personation; 10. Rhetorical Pause; 11. Poetical Elocution. Part Second.