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252 pp. ; 18 cm. ; OCLC: 15143234 ; LC: PE1120 ; Full Title: The English reader ; or, Pieces in prose and verse, from the best writers; designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect, improve their language and sentiments; and t o inculcate the most important principles of piety and virtue, With a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading. ; "The present work, as the title expresses, aims at the attainment of three objects: to improve youth in the art of reading; to meliorate their language and sentiments; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue. The pieces selected, not only give exercise to a great variety of emotions, and the correspondent tones and variations of voice, but contain sentences and members of sentences, which are diversified, proportioned, and pointed with accuracy. Exercises of this nature are, it Is presumed, well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and effect. The language of the pieces chosen for this collection has been carefully regarded. Purity, propriety, perspicuity, and, in many instances, elegance of diction distinguish them. They are extracted from the works of the most correct and elegant writers."--Preface ; Select Contents: Haman; or the misery of pride -- Lady Jane Grey -- Orlogrul; or the vanity of riches -- The hill of science -- The journey of a day; a picture of human life -- The cataract of Niagara, in Canada, North America -- The grotto of Antiparos -- The grotto of Antiparos continued -- Earthquake at Catanea -- Character of Queen Elizabeth -- Trial and execution of the Earl of Strafford -- Democritus and Heraclitus -- Dionysius, Pythias, and Damon -- Locke and Bayle -- Cicero against Verres -- Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senate, imploring their protection against Jugurtha -- Lord Mansfield's speech in the House of Lords, 1770, on the bill for preventing the delays of justice, by claiming the privilege of parliament -- Earthquake at Calabria, in the year 1638 -- Letter from Pliny to Germinlius -- Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus -- The speech of Fablieius, a Roman ambassador, to king Pyrrhus, etc.; repair to back cover ; FAIR. Seller Inventory # 4813
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