PHILADELPHIA:
JAMES KAY, JUN, AND BROTHER

Pittsburgh: John I. Kay & Co.

AMERICAN

ORATOR'S OWN BOOK:

OR THE ART OF

EXTEMPORANEOUS PUBLIC SPEAKING,

INCLUDING

A Course of Discipline

FOR OBTAINING THE

FACULTIES OF DISCRIMINATION, ARRANGEMENT

AND ORAL DISCUSSION;

WITH

A D E BATE ,
AS AN EXERCISE IN ARGUMENTATIVE DECLAMATION;

AND NUMEROUS

SELECTIONS FOR PRACTICE.

WRITTEN AND COMPILED FOR THE USE OF COLLEGES,

SCHOOLS, AND STUDENTS OF ORATORY.

PHILADELPHIA:
JAMES KAY, JUN. AND BROTHER,

122 Chestnut Street-near Fourth.
PITTSBURGH: JOHN I. KAY & co.

1836.

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Entered according to the act of congress, in the year
1836, by JAMES Kay, Jun. & BROTHER, in the clerk's of
fice of the district court of the United States in and for
the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

Printed and Bound by
James Kay, Jun. & Brother,

Philadelphia.