The Standard First[-fifth] Reader ...

*** The names of authors and subjects, alphabetically arranged, will be foun

embraced in the Explanatory Index at the end of the volume.

For an explanation of the marks of reference in Part II., see p. 55.

PART I.

PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION.

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CONTENTS.

Exercises in Emphasis,

Inflection,

XI.

XII. Exercises in Inflection,.

IX.

X. Pronunciation, Modulation, Emphasis,

Pibroch of Donuil Dhu,

Extracts from Ossian,

"XIII. Punctuation, Typographical Marks, &c.,

"XIV. On Reading Poetry,

PART II.

PROSE.

EXERCISES IN READING.

RACISE

1. The Silent Academy,

2. Mischiefs of False Pride,

4. The Prisoner and the Rats,

5. The Scholar's Pilgrimage,

7. Proverbs of All Nations,

9. A Volunteer Bull-fight,

12. The Folly of Castle-building,

13. SELECT APOLOGUES.

ADDISON,

Class Opinions -The Sword and Pen - Humming-Bird and But-

terfly-The Wolf and Kid-The Wolf on his Death-bed - The

Two Bees- The Partial Judge-Court of Death-Dishonesty

Punished,

16. Practical Jokes,

17. Contrasted Soliloquies,

18. The Poor Exile,

MRS. OPIE,

JANE TAYLOR,

21. THOUGHTS TO DWELI. ON.

Life

Influence of Actions-Now- Fidelity in Little Things

- Imperceptible Formation of Habits- -Kindness its own Reward, 84

22. The Boastful Scholar,

23. Learning to Write,

25. The Snow of Winter,

26. The Two Roads,

29. Gladiatorial Combat with a Tiger,

30. Government of the Thoughts,

102

103

104

32. Compression in Speech,

33. Turning the Grindstone,

34. The Present in View of the Future,

37. Fall of a Mountain,

38. The Spider and Bee: an Apologue,

39. Climate of the Catskill Mountains,

41. John Pounds, the Cobbler, .

44. On the Study of Words (Part I.),

47. The Stream Made to Work,

50. The Teachings of Nature,

51. A Chase on the Ice,

52. The Particular Lady,

56. Spirit the Motive Power, &c.,

57. The Lion and the Spaniel,

58. Imprisonment of Bonnivard,

61. HISTORICAL CHARACTERS.
Alexander Severus
ard Burke. Milton-
-

62. On the Abuse of Genius,

64. Astronomy and Immortality (Part I.),

65.

69. The Complaint of a Stomach,

70 The Permanence of Words,

(Part II.),

71. The Puffers,

74. A Pupil's Tribute, &c.,

75. Self-killing, .

76. Humanity of Robert Bruce,

77. First Predictor of an Eclipse,

80. Inconvenient Ignorance,

81. The Cavern by the Sea,

82. THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION.

Air and Exercise - Quarterly Review.

States Webster. Our Common Schools

ing the Body at the Soul's Expense-

Teacher's Calling-Channing,

83. Columbus and his Discovery,

84. The Discovery of America,

86. Unity and Progress of Mankind,

87. On Kindness to Brute Animals,

89. The Resolute Whale,

90. A Storm in the Indian Ocean,.

92. The Prairies of the West,

The Valley of Mexico,

94 The World of Water,

The Wind and Rain,

97. The Best Kind of Revenge,

98. Labor and Genius, .

99. Permanence of the Useful,

102. The Two Palaces: an Allegory,

Ib.

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Gibbon. Queen Elizabeth - Hume. How-
Quarterly Review. Washington-Webster, 144

147

150

151

157

. 160

TRENCH,

KARR,

FROM THE GERMAN,

LARDNER,
BROOKE,
DUMAS,.

Education in the United

130

131

133

138

103. The Discontented Miller, .

104. The Planets and Heavenly Bodies,

105. THOUGHTS ON EARLY RISING.

Habits of Great Men

How to Rise Early-

107. A Rill from the Town Pump (Part I.),

108. 66

109. Sound and Sense,

(Part II.),

112. Is Knowledge Power?

114. HISTORICAL CHARACTERS.

Rob-

Demosthenes- Creasy. Cicero and Demosthenes Compared-Fen-
elon. Alfred the Great- Dickens. Mary, Queen of Scots-
ertson. Last Moments of Addison - Macaulay. Lord Chatham
in Parliament-Hazlitt. As Secretary of State- Grattan. Ed-

mund Burke - Anon.,

117. The Youth of Washington,

118. Vesuvius,

119. The Sword and Press,

121. Joan of Arc,

127. Archimedes,

129. The Free Mind,

130. ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS.

Anon. The Morning Hour-Webster.

Anon.,

122. The Sky,

125. ELOQUENCE OF STATESMEN.
Degeneracy of Athens-Demosthenes. Value of Literature-Cicero.
On Taxing the American Colonies - Chatham. Justice Sher-
idan. Impeachment of Hastings- Burke. The Impracticable
Undesirable -Ib. American Progress-lb. The Schoolmaster
Abroad Brougham. Reply to De Brézé -Mirabeau. Men and
Measures Canning. Resistance to the British
Henry. The
Union - Webster. Civil War-

Clay,.

CHAMBERS,
.LYTTON-ANON.,

IRVING,

131. Ferdinand and Isabella,

132 Cromwell's Expulsion of the Parliament, . LINGARD, .

Traits of Character Flint. Indian Mounds
ance of Indians from the Ohio
ward
143. War the Child of Barbarism,
144. Adventure in Calabria,

Sprague,

147. Shakspeare's Power of Expression,
148. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS ELOQUENCE.

Audubon.

Know before you Speak-True Generosity-Moral and Physical
Courage-Religion the Cement of Society-Habits of bserva-
tion Good Advice Humorous Retaliation,

LAMARTINE,

EVERETT,
WM. WARE,
CARLYLE,.

254

DE QUINCEY AND OTHERS, 259

RUSKIN,

263

—

Moral

Basis of our System- Washington. A Republic Strongest - Jef-
ferson. True Bond of Union Jackson. Religious and Mental
Culture Wayland. Our Political Experiment- Wirt.
Force of Example-Mc Lean. Fabric of our Government-Webster, 287

136. The Harbor of San Francisco,

137. Execution of Madame Roland,

138. What a Common Man may say,.

142 THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.

290

•. ·

. 291
293

BREWSTER,
COURIER,

. QU. REVIEW,

Ib. Disappear-

Their Retreat West-

222

224

Religion essential to Morality - Washington. Indebtedness to

Christianity-Park. This Life's Experiences point to Another

Wilson. Joys of a Good Conscience - South. Outward and In-

ward Riches-Talfourd. Effects of Infidelity-Hall. Knowl-

edge an Assurance of Immortality - Wilson. Demoralization of

Irreligion Channing. Study of God's Works -Linnæus. Min-

istry of the Beautiful- Chalmers. The most Precious Possession

- Davy. Reflections in Westminster Abbey - Addison Efficacy

of Prayer-Lammenais. Death- - Dewey,

151. The Mind its own Educator,

132. Fulton's First Steamboat,

153. Passage of the Beresina,

154. Duelling,.

155. Benjamin Franklin,

160 Progress of Civilization,

163. Vanity, &c., of Literature,

166. A Paper of Tobacco,

169. Complaint of a Pair of Lungs (Part I.),

170.

171. SELECT PASSAGES.

(Part II.),

2. Another Day,

6. Complaints of the Poor,
8. The Lighthouse,

200. Peculiarities of our Liberty,

202. What Labor has Done,

203. Gil Blas and the Parasite,

204. False and True Energy, .

208. Advice to an Affected Speaker,

209. Lament over Lost Opportunities,

210. The Good Goddess of Poverty,

211. Pleasures of Science,

212. Proverbs of Solomon,

27. The Present Time,

28. The Blind Street-fiddler,

10. The Daffodils,

11. Resignation to God's Will,

14. The Turf shall be, &c.,.

15. The Spartan Boy,.

19. The Seasons,

20. Thought and Deed,

FOSTER, WIRT, WINTHROP, 331

Indebtedness to Society

Resistance to Ridicule

land.

Mountford. Love of Home - Webster.

Sydney Smith. Of Veracity-

Niebuhr.

Perseverance under Failure

Chambers.

Imagination-Jane Taylor. Idleness
Jesting- Ib. Local Associations-Johnson,

174. Telegraphs, ..

176. Lochiel's Warning,

177. The Declaration of Independence,

178. The Indians among Themselves,

180. The American War,

181. Literature of the Hebrews,

183 Napoleon,

184 Napoleon as a Student,

185. THOUGHTS ON BOOKS.

Hood. The Worth of Books

Obligations to Literature

Hillard.

ning. Moral Influence of a Literary Taste-

bleness of a Taste for Reading - Herschel The Habit may be

Abused,

BROWNE,

186. Capture of a Whale,

188. THE ELOQUENCE OF SCIENCE.

The

Extent of the Universe. The Atmosphere Qu. Review.
The Steam-engine Jeffrey. Ignorance of Great Physical Truths
Life Light Liebig. Wonders of the Created Universe
Herschell On the Vastness of the Universe- Whewell,

189. Common Errors, .

196. Pizarro in Peru,

197. Human Science at Fault,

DEGERANDO,
STORY,.

SCHUBERT,
CAMPBELL,
SERGEANT,

IRVING,

CHATHAM,

RUSSELL,
LAMARTINE,

Abuse of the

A Habit of

KEBLE,
SOUTHEY,

MOORE,
MISS LAMB,
SCHOTTEL,

SELECT PASSAGES IN VErse.

Ulysses' Dog. Feigned Courage - Miss Lamb. Beauty - Gay.
The Pleasures of Memory - Rogers. Ambition - Byron. Defi-
ance- Young. Affectionate Remembrance - Wordsworth,

35 Hymn,.

36. Graves of a Household,

40. SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE.

Happiness - Keble. Friendship - Wordsworth. Comfort in Adver-

sity Southey. Futurity-Dryden. Short-sightedness - Trench.

Independence Thomson. The Moral Law Wordsworth. The

Ruined City,

42 The Spring Shower,

43. Not to Myself Alone,

48. A Retrospective Review,

49. Address to the Indolent,

53 The Father's Return,

54 The Carrier-pigeon,

55. Ode to Peace, .

59. The Launch of the Ship,

60. Affectation,

63. Creation,.

66. God,.

67. Expression in Reading,

68. The Return of the Dove, .

Griffin,

79. Advance,

85. First Voyage of Columbus,

88. Reciprocal Kindness,

91. Heroism of Grace Darling,

92. The Prairies,

96. The Hurricane,

100. To the Flying-fish,

101. The Village Preacher,

106. The Ship,

110 When I am Old,.

11. Hymn of the Mountaineers,

113. True Courage,

HOOD,

THOMSON,

SOUTHEY,.

."MOORE,

Charity Crabbe. The Guilty Conscience

Tennyson. Coronach- Scott,

ADDISON,
HEMANS,.

MOORE,

GOLDSMITH,

WILSON,

MISS BRIGGS,

HOLMES,

GRAY,

72. Hymn of the Hebrew Maid,

73. The Brave Man,

78. SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE.

A Prayer-Thomson. Providence Inscrutable-Addison. Essen-
tial Knowledge attainable by All- Wordsworth. Knowledge and
Wisdom- Cowper. To Duty Wordsworth. Death of the Young
and Fair- Conscientious Discharge of Duty-Bryant. Hope and
Gloom Whittier. Night - Southey. Love due to the Creator