FOURTH EDITION.]

THE

ACADEMICAL READER,

COMPRISING SELECTIONS FROM THE

Most Admired Authors,

DESIGNED TO PROMOTE THE LOVE OF

VIRTUE, PIETY, AND PATRIOTISM:

TO ASSIST THE STUDENT TO READ WITH PROPRIETY, CONVERSE WITH
FLUENCY AND EASE, AND TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC WITH

DIGNITY AND EFFECT.

COMPILED BY

JOHN J. HARROD.

"Happy are they whose amusement is knowledge, and whose chief delight is the cal
tivation of the mind! Wherever they shall be driven by the persecution of Fortune, the
means of employment are still with them; and that weary listlessness, which renders
life insupportable to the voluptuous and the indolent, is unknown to those who can cn-
ploy themselves by reading."-Telemachus.

May Columbia always afford more than one Demosthenes, to support the cause of
Freedom; and may more than Ciceroniau eloquence be always ready to plead for in
jured innocence, and suffering virtue,”—Perkins.

BALTIMORE:

PUBLISHED BY PHEONIX N. WOOD & Co.,

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BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this first day of May, in the fifty-fourth year of
********* the independence of the United States of America, JOHN J. HARROD,
L. S. of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the
********* right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
The Academical Reader, comprising Selections from the most Admired Authors, de-
signed to promote the love of Virtue, Piety, an Patriotism to assist the student to
read with propriety, converse with fluency and ease, and to speak in public with dig-
nity and effect. Compiled by John J. Harrod. Happy are they whose amusement
is knowledge, and whose chief delight is the cultivation of the mind! Wherever they
shall be driven by the persecution of Fortune, the means of employment are still with
them; and that weary listlessness, which renders life insupportable to the voluptuous
and the indolent, is unknown to those who can employ themselves by reading.-Te-
lemachus.- May Columbia always afford more than one Demosthenes, to support the
cause of Freedom; and may more than Ciceronian eloquence be always ready to plead
for injured innocence, and suffering virtue.'-Perkins."

In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;" and also to the act entitled, " An act supplementary to the act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the beneits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." PHILIP MOORE, Clerk of the District of Maryland.

WQR 19 FEB '36

DEDICATION.

TO THE

LABORIOUS, FAITHFUL AND COMPETENT

INSTRUCTORS OF YOUTH OF BOTH SEXES,