LESSON. TABLE OF CONTENTS. LESSONS IN PROSE. 56. Virtue and Piety Man's Highest Interest.. 62. The Children of the very Poor................... .Addison. Bible... ..Henderson.. .Bible. ..Bible. W. Irving... .Bible.. Penny Magazine.. .Sterne.. ..Bible.. ..New Monthly Magazine.. 45. The Deer-Hunter of the West.. 47. Moses's Bargain of green Spectacles...... 49. Lamentation of Job in remembrance of former prosperity..... 65. Exordium of a Speech on a Trial for Murder.. 66. The Indian, as he was and as he is. 67. The Discontented Pendulum.... 68. Shocking Effects of Intemperance.......... 71 Extract from a Discourse of the French Orator........Massillon.... 17C 76. Misfortunes of Men mostly chargeable on themselves. Blair... 182 87. The Hospitable Negro Woman.. 90. Diedrich Knickerbocker's New England Farmer. 92. A Mighty Good kind of Man.. 99. Pestalozzi's School at Stantz... 102. Use of the Institution of Property. 104. Folly and Wickedness of War.. 114. Relief of the Soldiers of the Revolution 116. Pernicious Effects of Gaming FAULTY PRONUNCIATION. [The words contained in the subjoined list are frequently mispronounced. The correction is purposely omitted, in order that it may be made by the pupil himself on consulting a dictionary. It is thought that a little pains in looking out the word, will be more likely to make him remember the correction. A portion of the list may be given with each of the reading lessons, until the whole is thoroughly impressed on the memory.] |