THE

ELEMENTS

OF

READING AND ORATORY:

Verum illi persuasione sua fruantur, qui hominibus, ut sint oratores, satis putant nasci:
nostro labori dent veniam, qui nihil credimus esse perfectum, nisi ubi natura curâ juvetur.
QUINCTILIAN.

HENRY MANDEVILLE, D. D.

PROFESSOR OF MORAL SCIENCE AND BELLES-LETTRES IN HAMILTON COLLEGE.

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