The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Form the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading

W. and J. Bolles, 1842 - Readers - 252 pages

The death of a good man a strong incentive to virtue	4

Selfishness reproved	10

On an infant	17

On Solitude	23

The clemency and amiable character of ne patriarch Joseph	98

Altamont	100

Democritus and Heraclitus	102

Dionysius Pythias and Damon	104

The pleasures of virtuous sensibility	142

12 On the true honour of man	144

The influence of devotion on the happiness of life	145

The planetary and terrestrial worids comparatively considered	147

On the power of custom and the uses to which it may be applied	149

The pleasure resulting from a proper use of our faculties	150

Description of Candour	151

On the imperfection of that happiness which rests solely on worldly pleasures	152

Locke and Bayle	106

Cicero against Verres	111

Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senate imploring protection	114

The Apostle Pauls noble defence before Festus and Agrippa	117

Lord Mansfields speech in the House of Lords 1770 on the bill for preventing the delays of justice c	119

An Address to young persons	123

Earthquake at Calabria in the year 1538	126

Letter from Pliny to Geminius	129

Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus on the death of an amiable young woman	130

On Discretion	131

On the government of our thoughts	133

On the evils which flow from unrestrained passion	135

On the proper state of our temper with respect to one another	136

Excellence of the Holy Scriptures	138

Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pronounced by Christ on his disciples in his sermon on the mount	139

Schemes of life often illusory	140

What are the real and solid enjoyments of human life	155

Scale of beings	157

Trust in the care of Providence recommended	159

Piety and gratitude enliven prosperity	161

Virtue deeply rooted is not subject to the influence of fortune	163

The speech of Fabricius to king Pyrrhus who attempted to bribe him to his interests by the offer of a large sum of money	164

Character of James I king of England	165

Charles V Emp of Germany resigns his dominions c	166

The same subject continued	168

Short and easy sentences	171

Verses in which the lines are of different length	173

Verses containing exclamations interrogations parentheses c	174

Verses in various forms	176

Verses in which sound corresponds to signification 178	178

The bears and the bees	182

Title	The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Form the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading
Author	Lindley Murray
Publisher	W. and J. Bolles, 1842
Original from	Princeton University
Digitized	17 Dec 2008
Length	252 pages

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