An essay upon the action of an orator, as to his pronunciation & gesture useful both for divines and lawyers, and necessary for all young gentlemen, that study how to speak well in publick / done out of French.

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An essay upon the action of an orator, as to his pronunciation & gesture useful both for divines and lawyers, and necessary for all young gentlemen, that study how to speak well in publick / done out of French.
Author
Le Faucheur, Michel, 1585-1657.
Publication
London :: Printed for Nich. Cox ...,
[1680?]
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"An essay upon the action of an orator, as to his pronunciation & gesture useful both for divines and lawyers, and necessary for all young gentlemen, that study how to speak well in publick / done out of French." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B25742.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.

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Page [unnumbered]

Authors and other great Persons, quoted in this Treatise of A∣CTION.

  • ST. Augustin
  • Antoninus, the Emperor
  • Aristotle
  • Archippus, the Comaedian
  • Alcibiades
  • Alexander the Great
  • Augustus Caesar
  • Apollonius
  • Adrian the Phe∣nician.
  • Attalus, King Andronicus.
  • St. Bernard
  • Brissonle President
  • St. Chrysostom
  • Cicero

Page [unnumbered]

  • Cornificius
  • Cotta
  • Crassus.
  • Demosthenes.
  • Eunomus
  • Euripides
  • Esopus the great Actor
  • Flavius Virginius
  • St. Gregory Nazi∣anzen
  • Geminus Varus
  • Hortensius
  • Haterius
  • St. John
  • St. James
  • St. Jerome
  • Judges of the A∣reopagus.
  • Isocrates.
  • Leonidas
  • Lucilius
  • Martianus Capella
  • Maillard, Oliver
  • Mucius
  • Malherbe, Mon∣sieur
  • Ovid.
  • St. Paul
  • Philostratus.
  • Philiscus
  • Plutarch
  • Pliny Junior
  • Photius
  • Plato
  • Paulinus.
  • Pericles.
  • Pausanias
  • Phavorinus the Sophist

Page [unnumbered]

  • Polus the famous Comaedian
  • Quintilian
  • Roscius
  • Rutilius
  • Socrates
  • Seneca
  • Sylla
  • Sophocles
  • Satyrus
  • Serapion
  • Thucidides
  • Trachallus
  • Tacitus.
  • Theophrastus.
  • Vinicius du Vair, Monsieur
  • Zozimus the Freeman of Pli∣ny Junior.
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