AMERICAN SELECTION

O F

LESSONS,

IN

READING AND SPEAKING,

CALCULATED

TO IMPROVE THE MINDS AND REFINE THE
TASTE OF YOUTH:

TO WHICH, RE PREFIXED

RULES IN ELOCUTION,

And Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions
of the Mind.

BEING

THE THIRD PART

OF A

GRAMMATICAL INSTITUTE

OF THE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

BY NOAH WEBSTER, JUN.

Author of "Differtations on the English Language, Collation of
Effays and Fugitive Writings," "The Prompter, &c.,

ELIZABETH-TOWN:

PRINTED BY JOHN WOODS, FOR EVERT DUY KINCK,

NEW-YORK-1802.

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