THE

BOOK OF ELOQUENCE:

Α

COLLECTION OF EXTRACTS

IN

PROSE AND VERSE,

FROM THE MOST ELOQUENT ORATORS AND POETS OF
OTHER DAYS AND THE PRESENT TIME;

INTENDED AS EXERCISES FOR DECLAMATION IN COLLEGES

AND SCHOOLS.

BY CHARLES D. WARNER.

"Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action; with this special
observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.”—SHAKSPEARE.

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Re patuit

Quid facundia posset

"-OVID, Met. Lib. xiii.

CAZENOVIA:

MILLS, CRANDALL & MOSELEY.

NEW YORK: MARK H. NEWMAN & CO.