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; to Improve Their Language and Sentiments; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading

Collins and Company, 1817 - Readers - 316 pages

A paraphrase on the latter part of the sixth chapter of St Matthew	209

The death of a good man a strong incentive to virtue	210

Adams advice to Eve to avoid temptation	211

On procrastination	212

That philosophy which stops at secondary causes reproved	213

Indignant sentiments on national prejudices and hatred and on slavery	214

CHAP IV	215

Rural sounds as well as rural sights delightful	216

Altamont	111

Cicero against Verres	123

Lord Mansfields speech in the House of Lords 1770	131

Earthquake at Calabria in the year 1638	138

On the government of our thoughts	146

On the proper state of our temper with respect	149

PART II	186

The bears and the bees	197

The trials of virtue	198

The youth and the philosopher	200

Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest	201

Religion and death	204

CHAP III	206

On Pride	207

Cruelty to brutes censured	208

The rose	217

Care of birds for their young	218

Charity A paraphrase on the thirteenth chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians	219

Picture of a good man	220

The pleasures of retirement	222

The pleasure pleasure and benefit of an improved and well direct ed imagination	223

CHAP V	225

The beggars petition	226

Unhappy close of life	227

Verses supposed to be written by Alex Selkirk during his solitary abode in the island of Juan Fernandez	228

Gratitude	229

A man perishing in the snow from whence reflections	231

Providence vindicated in the present state of man	244

Conscience	251

On solitude	261

Title	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; to Improve Their Language and Sentiments; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary ...
Author	Lindley Murray
Publisher	Collins and Company, 1817
Original from	the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Digitized	20 Jan 2011
Length	316 pages

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