The American speaker: containing numerous rules, observations, and exercises on pronunciation, pauses, inflections, accent, and emphasis

also, copious extracts in prose and poetry ...

... we tread, is round ; — he proposes, with what seems a sacrilegious hand, to lift
the veil which had hung, from the creation of the world, over the floods of the
ocean ; — he promises, by a western course, to reach the eastern shores of Asia
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