The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Authors. 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

N. Burrill, 1818 - 263 páginas

CHAPTER 1	23

selves	37

On disinterested friendship	80

CHAPTER V	86

CHAPTER VI	101

CHAPTER VII	111

CHAPTER VIII	121

on the bill for preventing the delays of justice	128

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk during his solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez	225

Gratitude	227

A man perishing in the snow from whence reflec tions are raised on the miseries of life	228

A morning hymn	230

Promiscuous Pieces SECT 1 Ode to Content	231

The shepherd and the philosopher	233

The road to happiness open to all men	235

The goodness of Providence	236

Earthquake at Calabria in the year 1638	136

Short and easy sentences	182

Verses in which sound corresponds to signification	189

CHAPTER	202

Descriptive Pieces	212

Care of birds for their young	214

Liberty and slavery contrasted	215

Charity A paraphrase on the 13th chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians	216

Picture of a good man	217

The pleasures of retirement	219

The pleasure and benefit of an improved and well directed imagination	220

CHAPTER V	221

The beggars petition	223

Unhappy close of life	224

Address to the Deity	237

The pursuit of happiness often ill directed	238

The fireside	240

Providence vindicated in the present state of man	242

Selfishness reproved	243

Human frailty	244

Ode to peace	245

The Creation required to praise its Author	247

The universal prayer	249

On an infant 251	252

The order of nature	255

Hymn composed during sickness	256

Hymn on a review of the seasons	257

On solitude	259

Título	The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Authors. 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 ...
Autor	Lindley Murray
Editor	N. Burrill, 1818
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Princeton
Digitalizado	17 Dic. 2008
Largo	263 páginas

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