EL

THE

AMERICAN ORATOR;

OR,

Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry ;

COMPREHENDING A DIVERSITY OF

ORATORICAL SPECIMENS,

OF THE

Eloquence of Popular Assemblies,

OF THE BAR, OF THE PULPIT, &c.

Principally intended for the use of Schools and Academies.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

A DISSERTATION ON

Dratorical Delivery and the Dutlines of Gesture.

"There is as much Eloquence in the Tone of Voice, in the Look, and in the
Gesture of an Orator, as in the Use of his words."

BY INCREASE COOKE.

:

SIDNEY'S PRESS.

For John Babcock & Sor, New-Haven, and
S. & W. R. Babcock, Charleston, S. C.

1819