FIGURES OF ELOCUTION EXEMPLIFIED; OR, DIRECTIONS FOR reading and reciting SUCH FIGURES OF SPEECH AS MOST FREQUENTLY OCCUR IN THE BEST WRITINGS, AND WHICH REQUIRE PARTICULAR MODULATIONS OF THE VOICE, FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS. BY CHARLES RICHSON, Master of the Westminster Bridge Road Academy. London: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, AND SOLD BY SIMPKIN and MARSHALL, Stationer's Court, Ludgate Hill; Price 2s. neatly Bound. PREFACE. AS every experienced Instructer of Youth must be aware that the most effectual method of teaching is "Line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little," he must know how to appreciate those works which are calculated to assist him in so arduous a task. It is presumed, that the " Figures of Elocution Exemplified," will be found a valuable auxiliary, for the Author having used them during the last six months, has been well enabled to judge of their utility. He uses them thus: a certain number of his pupils, being arranged in a class, he first explains the figure about to be read, then reads a few of the examples, and afterwards his pupils read the same, superiority of place rewarding him who best explains the subject of the lesson. Having been thus employed a convenient time, his pupils proceed to their study of a superior work, such as "The Speaker, English Reader, &c. ;' and during their reading or recitation, he reminds them of the figure they have previously studied. It may be remarked, that the number and lengtth of some examples, appear wholly unnecessary, to which the Author would reply, that they are so arranged for the convenience of plans, for some teachers choose rather that their pupils be confined to one book until they understand the whole of its contents; while others, with himself, prefer the use of a second books as before described. |