The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation: Selected Principally from Modern Authors of Great Britain and America, and Designed for the Use of the Highest Class in Publick and Private SchoolsHilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1831 - 480 sider |
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Lesson | 13 |
Account of W Penns treaty with the Indians | 21 |
Athenæum | 22 |
Importance of literaturea DialogueCadmus | 25 |
No life pleasing to God that is not useful | 28 |
Mercury an English Duellist | 33 |
A fable | 34 |
The Rainbow | 37 |
Cowper | 181 |
DENNIE | 196 |
Persecution of the Scottish | 209 |
Quarterly Review | 217 |
CHANNING | 234 |
CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE | 239 |
On the Dangers of Moral Sentiment unaccompanied | 246 |
Egyptian Mummies Tombs and Manners | 249 |
GREENWOOD | 39 |
A Morning in the Highlands of Scotland | 47 |
Nature and Poetry favourable to Virtue Humility | 52 |
Singular adventure | 60 |
Lyttleton | 68 |
Hawkesworth | 76 |
Dialogues of the Dead | 88 |
Baneful influence of skeptical philosophy | 107 |
Mrs Barbauld | 110 |
Blackwoods Ed Mag | 111 |
To a Waterfowl | 114 |
On the relative value of good Sense and Beauty | 116 |
WEBSTER 331 | 118 |
Lines written in a Highland glen | 120 |
Anonymous | 121 |
The Miseries of War | 124 |
The Young Minstrel | 126 |
Subject concluded | 134 |
PIECES FOR RECITATION OR SPEAKING | 137 |
Maternal Affection | 140 |
Scrap Book | 142 |
MISCELLANEOUS | 154 |
Daily Prayer Morning | 166 |
Night from the Lay Preacher | 167 |
The Poet and the Alchymist | 177 |
Lond Lit Gaz | 272 |
FRANKLIN | 274 |
The Young Minstrel | 275 |
Old Mortality | 298 |
HUNTINGTON | 305 |
J G PERCIVAL | 322 |
CRAFTS | 329 |
The Waterfall from the Russian Anthology | 330 |
Description of the Castle of indolence and its | 334 |
An Evening in the Graveyard AMERICAN WATCHMAN | 335 |
Burial places near Constantinople | 337 |
Lament of a Swiss Minstrel over the Ruins of Goldau ÑEAL | 351 |
A Thunderstorm among the Highlands of Scotland Wilson | 357 |
On the moral uses of the phenomena of the material | 365 |
Scene from Percys Masque | 370 |
The Churchyardfirst and second voices | 377 |
CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE | 390 |
NEAL | 398 |
Lochiels Warning | 406 |
The Blind Preacher | 415 |
Anonymous | 427 |
Lines on the entry of the Austrians into Naples Anonymous | 440 |
Thomson | 460 |
PATHETICK PIECES | 478 |