Format:
1 Online-Ressource (leaves, 338 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Electrotype edition
Series Statement:
Eclectic educational series
Content:
The forest-trees -- The poor widow -- The orphan -- Little victories -- An end of all perfection -- Do not meddle -- The chicken-cock and the fox -- The righteous never forsaken -- Select paragraphs -- The generous Russian peasant -- Touch not-Taste not-Handle not -- Man and the inferior animals -- Value of time and knowledge -- Scene at the Sandwich Islands -- The maniac -- Respect for the Sabbath rewarded -- The goodness of God -- Contrasted soliloquies -- The just judge -- Control your temper -- Death of Absalom -- A morning ramble -- The Alhambra by moonlight -- On elocution and reading -- No excellence without labor -- Necessity of education -- The intemperate husband -- The intemperate husband-continued -- Ill-nature rewarded -- The wife -- Decisive integrity -- The steam-boat trial -- Lucy Forrester -- The venomous worm -- The town pump -- Effects of gambling -- Criminality of dueling -- Tit for tat -- Conflagration of an amphitheater -- Charles II and William Penn -- Horrors of war -- Love of applause -- A picture of human life -- Puritan fathers -- American orator -- Europe and America -- The scriptures and the savior -- The blind preacher -- The Bible -- Rebellion in state-prison -- Religion, the only basis of society -- The bobolink -- The wild horse -- Matilda -- Speech of Logan -- The good reader -- Martyn and Byron -- Behind time -- The oak-tree -- Tired of play -- The grandfather -- My mother -- The spider and the fly -- The barber -- The dying boy -- The festal board -- Consolation of religion -- He never smiled again -- Nature and revelation -- The pebble and the acorn -- The child's inquiry -- Absalom -- April day -- The death of the flowers -- True wisdom -- The better land -- It snows -- Ginevra -- Procrastination -- A dirge -- A Hebrew tale -- Shylock -- The miser -- Prince Arthur -- Battle of Waterloo -- Midnight musings -- God's first temples -- William Tell -- William Tell-continued -- Make way for liberty -- The American eagle -- The gods of the heathen -- Maud Muller -- Rock me to sleep -- Lochiel's warning -- Apostrophe to the ocean -- The three sons -- Winged worshipers -- Soldier of the Rhine -- Byron -- Immortality of the soul -- Death and life.
Note:
A selection of prose and verse by the author and famed writers like Irving, Rousseau, Byron, and Shakespeare
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Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
Language:
English
URL:
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