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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.

BY

HENRY MANDEVILLE, D.D.,

FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF MORAL SCIENCE AND BELLES-LETTRES IN
HAMILTON COLLEGE, NEW YORK.

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.

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