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SELECTION OF PIECES

IN

PROSE AND VERSE,

FOR THE

IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH

IN

READING AND SPEAKING,

AS WELL AS FOR THE

PERUSAL OF PERSONS OF TASTE.

With an APPENDIX, containing
CONCISE LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN,

AND

PRINCIPLES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

BY

WILLIAM SCOTT,

TEACHER OF ENGLISH, WRITING, AND ACCOUNTS, AND
AUTHOR OF A NEW SPELLING, PRONOUNCING, AND
EXPLANATORY DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LAN-
QUAGE, &c.

FIFTH EDITION,

CORRECTED AND IMPROVED,

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Wielded at will the fierce Democracy

Shook th' Arfenal, and fulmin'd over Greece

To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' Throne.

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