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. Catharina, Empress of Russia, Execution of Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Death of Socrates, Account of William Penn's treaty with the Indians, Religion and Superstition contrasted, Goldsmith 22 Dr. Johnson 27 31 Edinburgh Review 34 CHAPTER III. DIDACTIC PIECES. On the pleasure of acquiring knowledge, On the uses of knowledge, Integrity the guide of life, 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, Dr. Johnson 51 The advantages of a taste for Natural History, The Grave of Jefferson, The last days of Herculaneum, AMES 66 ANON. 69 70 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, The Widow and her Son, CHAPTER V. PATHETIC PIECES. The Blind Preacher, The Head Stone, Cadmus and Hercules, Lord Bacon and Shakspeare, The Sultan and Mr. Howard, the Philanthropist, Mrs. Inchbald 95 CHAPTER VII. PUBLIC SPEECHES. The nature of true Eloquence, The perfect Orator, Panegyric on the Eloquence of Mr. Sheridan, Extract from Patrick Henry's Speech before a Convention of 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 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, The incidents of a Voyage across the Atlantic, Hudson, The happy effects of a virtuous sensibility, The importance of Order in the management of business, of the IRVING 139 DO. 143. Blair 144 do. 146 Mackenzie 147 |