Excerpt from Lessons in Elocution, or a Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking Elocution has, for some years past, been an ob ject of attention in the most respectable schools in this country. A laudable ambition of instructing youth, in the pronunciation and delivery of their native langu e, made English speeches a very conspicuous part 0 those exhibitions of oratory, which do our seminaries of learn ing so much credit.