The English Reader; or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers, Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect ... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingReprint of the original, first published in 1845. |
Contents
Select Sentences and Paragraphs 17 | ii |
The seasons | v |
The importance of a good education | 46 |
Schemes of life often illusory | 141 |
The pleasures of virtuous sensibility | 143 |
On the true honour of man | 145 |
The influence of devotion on the happiness of life | 146 |
The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered | 148 |
Verses in which the lines are of different length | 174 |
Verses containing exclamations interrogations and parentheses | 175 |
Verses in various forms | 177 |
Verses in which sound corresponds to signification | 179 |
Paragraphs of greater length | 180 |
The bear and the bees | 182 |
The nightingale and the glowworm | 183 |
The trials of virtue J64 4 The youth and the philosopher | 186 |
On the power of custom and the uses to which it may be applied | 150 |
The pleasures resulting from a proper use of our faculties | 152 |
Description ofcandour ib 18 On the imperfection of that happiness which rests solely on worldly pleasures | 154 |
What are the real and solid enjoyments of human life | 157 |
Scale of beings | 161 |
Piety and gratitude enliven prosperity | 162 |
Virtue when deeply rooted is net subject to the influence of fortune | 164 |
The Speech of Fabricius a Roman ambassador to king Pyrrhus | 165 |
Character of James I king of England | 166 |
Charles V emperor of Germany resigns his dominions and retires from the world | 167 |
The same subject continued | 170 |
Short and easy sentences | 172 |
Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest | 187 |
Religion and death | 189 |
The vanity of wealth 101 | 192 |
On pride ib 4 Cruelty to brutes censured | 193 |
A paraphrase ea the latter part of the 6th chapter of Matthew | 194 |
The death of a good man a strong incentive to virtue | 195 |
Reflections on a future state from a review of winter ib 8 Adains advice to Eve to avoid temptation | 196 |
On procrastination | 197 |
That philosophy which stops at secondary causes reproved | 198 |
Indignant sentiments on national prejudices and hatred and on slavery | 199 |
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