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THE

BOOK OF ELOQUENCE:

A

COLLECTION OF EXTRACTS

IN

PROSE AND VERSE,

FROM THE MOST FAMOUS ORATORS AND POETS;

INTENDED AS EXERCISES FOR DECLAMATION IN COLLEGES

AND SCHOOLS.

BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.

"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special
observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature."-SHAKSPEARE.
Quid facundia posset

66

Re patuit

."-OVID, Met. Lib. xiil

BOSTON:

LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS,

NEW YORK: CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM

(RECAP)

то

SIMON C. HITCHCOCK, ESQ.,

THIS WORK

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY

THE EDITOR,

AS SOME LITTLE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF KINDNESS SHOWN

THROUGH MANY YEARS.

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