A Course of Lectures on Elocution:: Together with Two Dissertations on Language; and Some Other Tracts Relative to Those SubjectsPrinted, by assignment from the executors of James Dodsley, for C. Dilly; T.N. Longman; Vernor and Hood; J. Walker; C. Law ... [and 3 others], 1798 - Elocution - 365 pages |
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