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Before the conclusion of this introduction, the Compiler takes the liberty to recommend to teachers, to exercise their pupils in discovering and explaining the emphatic words, and the proper tones and pauses, of every portion assigned them to read, previously to their being called out to the performance. These preparatory lessons, in which they should be regularly examined, will improve their judgment and taste; prevent the practice of reading without attention to the subject; and establish a habit of readily discovering the meaning, force, and beauty, of every sentence they peruse.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

PIECES IN PROSE.

CHAPTER I.

Select Sentences and Paragraphs.

CHAPTER II.

Narrative Pieces.

SECT. 1. No rank or possesions can make the guilty mind,

happy,

2. Change of external condition often adverse to virtue,
3. Haman; or the misery of pride,

4. Lady Jane Grey,

5. Ortogrul; or the vanity of riches,

6. The hill of science,

7. The journey of a day; a picture of human life,

CHAPTER III.

Didactic Pieces.

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3. On forgiveness,

sessor,

SECT. 1. The importance of a good education,

2. On gratitude,

4. Motives to the practice of gentleness,

6. Comforts of religion,

5. A suspicious temper the source of misery to its pos

7. Diffidence of our abilities a mark of wisdom,

8. On the importance of order in the distribution of
our time,

9. The dignity of virtue amidst corrupt examples,

10. The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue,
11. On contentment,

12. Rank and riches afford no ground for envy,

13. Patience under provocations our interest as well as
duty,

14. Moderation in our wishes recommended,

15. Omniscience and omnipresence of the Deity, the
source of consolation to good men.

CHAPTER IV.

Argumentative Pieces.

SECT. 1. Happiness is founded in rectitude of conduct,

2. Virtue man's bighest interest,

3. The injustice of an uncharitable spirit,

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