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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART I.

PIECES IN PROSE.

CHAPTER I.

[The names of American authors are in small capitals.]

Select Sentences,

CHAPTER II.

NARRATIVE PIECES.

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Catharina, Empress of Russia,

Execution of Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury,
The Voyage of Life :—an allegory,

Death of Socrates,

Account of William Penn's treaty with the Indians,

Religion and Superstition contrasted,

Goldsmith 22
Hume 25

Dr. Johnson 27

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Edinburgh Review 34
Carter 36

CHAPTER III.

DIDACTIC PIECES.

On the pleasure of acquiring knowledge,

On the uses of knowledge,

Integrity the guide of life,

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Blair 45

The happiness of animals a proof of divine bencvolence, Paley 46

The Seasons,

On the Swiftness of Time,

The unhappiness of unrestrained passions,

Of curiosity concerning the affairs of others,

Monthly Anthology 49

The miseries of Men mostly of their own procuring,
The Creator's works attest his greatness,

Dr. Johnson

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The advantages of a taste for Natural History,
Necessity of Industry, even to Genius,
Religion the only basis of Society,
On the reasonableness of Devotion,

The Grave of Jefferson,

The last days of Herculaneum,

AMES 66

ANON. 69

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JEFFERSON 71 72

Passage of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers through the

Blue Ridge,

The Egyptian Pyramids,

Of the Forum and other public buildings at Rome,
Description of Etna,

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The Widow and her Son,

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CHAPTER V.

PATHETIC PIECES.

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The Blind Preacher,

The Head Stone,

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Cadmus and Hercules,

Lord Bacon and Shakspeare,

The Sultan and Mr. Howard, the Philanthropist, Mrs. Inchbald 95

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CHAPTER VII.

PUBLIC SPEECHES.

The nature of true Eloquence,

The perfect Orator,

Panegyric on the Eloquence of Mr. Sheridan,
Extract from Mr. Pitt's Speech in Parliament,

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Extract from Patrick Henry's Speech before a Convention of
Delegates, in Virginia, 1775,

WIRT 107

Extract from an Eulogy on Jefferson and Adams, delivered in

Boston, 1826,

WEBSTER 110

Extract from a Speech of Mr. Phillips, in Ireland, on a certain

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Extract from a Eulogy on Jefferson and Adams, pronounced

at Washington, 1826,

WIRT 125

Extract from an Address at the laying of the corner stone of the

Bunker Hill Monument,

Speech of Titus Quinctius to the Romans,

Extract from Judge Story's Continental Address,

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The incidents of a Voyage across the Atlantic,
Description of a Thunder Storm on the Highlands

Hudson,

The happy effects of a virtuous sensibility,

The importance of Order in the management of business,
The Funeral of Maria,

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IRVING 139

DO. 143.

Blair 144

do. 146

Mackenzie 147

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