STANDARD VI. ADAPTED TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE NEW CODE, 1871. EDITED BY A FORMER H.M. INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS. LONDON: : CHARLES GRIFFIN AND COMPANY, STATIONERS' HALL COURT. 1872. This book is intended as a higher Reading-book, either for the First Class in the School or for Pupil-teachers. Selections are given from the best authors in prose and poetry, from Bacon and Chaucer to the present time, arranged in chronological order. In order to make the book complete, both for children in Standard VI. and for Pupil-teachers, suggestions and helps have been given for Composition, Analysis of Sentences, Letter-Writing, Essay-Writing, Paraphrase, and Punctuation. Lessons are also inserted in a few simple Scientific subjects. The Section devoted to Arithmetic will be found to contain a complete guide to Proportion, Vulgar Fractions, and Decimals, both as regards Rules and Examples. а REQUIREMENTS OF THE NEW CODE, 1871. READING.–To read with fluency and expression. ... ... ... ... ... SELECTIONS FROM PROSE WRITERS. FRANCIS Bacon, Of Studies... 5 EDWARD HYDB, Earl of Clarendon, Adventures of Charles II... Joan EVELYN, The Fire of London SAMUEL PEPYS, The Great Plague... JOHN LOCKE, Practice and Habits... JONATHAN SWIFT, The Spider and the Bee RICHARD STEELE, Alexander Selkirk JOSEPH ADDISON, The Mountain of Miseries SAMUEL JOHNSON, Necessity and Luxury... DAVID HUME, Character of Queen Elizabeth WILLIAM ROBERTSON, Character of Mary, Queen of Scots GOLDSMITH, A Philosophic Vagabond RICHARD B. SHERIDAN, Invective against Warren Hastings EDMUND BURKE, Panegyric on the Eloquence of Sheridan SIB WALTER Scott, The Siege, 59; A Highland Mansion CHARLES LAMB, Moral Courage 68 WASHINGTON IRVING, Westminster Abbey, 73.; Rural Life in England 75 THOMAS DE QUINCEY, The Mail-coach and the Rail JOHN WILSON, The Snowstorm 80 JAMES F. COOPER, The Ariel among the Shoals SIR F. B. HEAD, The Canadian Indians WILLIAM WHEWELL, The Microscope and Telescope LORD MACAULAY, Trial of the Seven Bishops, 100; On Bunyan, 105; Origin HALLAM, Domestic Comfort in the Fifteenth Century HARRIET MARTINEAU, The Coast of Norway, 111 ; Willie, the Poor Lost Lad 113 Hugh MILLER, Old Red Sandstone LORD LYTTON, Vance and Lionel at the Fair, 123; Uncle Jack WILLIAM M. THACKERAY, The Last Days of Colonel Newcombe CHARLES DICKENS, Death of Paul Dombey, 130; A Coach-drive, 135; Death DEAN STANLEY, The Passover, 143; The Last View from Pisgah Rev. C. KINGSLEY, The Fir Plantation, 145; The Fox-hunt, 147; Scotch Firs 150 JOHN RUSKIN, Grass, 161; Office of the Mountains, 153; Lichen and Mosses, ... ... ... ... ... ... ... :: ... .. ... ... ... ... 203 ... ... MICHAEL DRAYTON, Summer's Eve 161 WILLIAM SHAKSPERE, As you Like it, 161; Hamlet's Soliloquy, 162; Mark Antony's Oration, 163; Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell, 166 ; Othello's John Milton, Introduction to “ Paradise Lost,” 174; Adam and Eve's Morning Hymn, 176; Evening in Paradise, . JOHN DRYDEN, Song for St. Cecilia's Day JAMES THOMSON, Spring Flowers, 186; Rule, Britannia ! OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Deserted Village, 193; The Village Parson 195; WILLIAM COWPER, My Mother's Picture, 197; My Native Land WILLIAM WOBDSWORTH, A Peasant Youth, 204; Grace Darling JAMES MONTGOMERY, The Common Eot SIR W. Scott, Helvellyn, 213; Song, 214; Eochinvar SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, From “ The Ancient Mariner" THOMAS CARLYLE, The Sower's Song THOMAS CAMPBELL, The Battle of the Baltic BISHOP HEBER, The Passage of the Red Sea LORD BYRON, The Night before Waterloo, 221; The Coliseum by Night, 223; Apostrohpe to the Ocean, 224; The Letter H ... Mrs. HEMANS, The Voice of Spring LORD MACAULAY, Defence of the Bridge N.B.-In two or three cases above, where the lives overlap, the order is given according to the date of death instead of that of birth. COMPOSITION. Analysis of Sentences SCIENTIFIC SECTION :—Matter, 264; Forces and Motion, 268; The Me- ... ... ... ... THE SCHOOL BOARD READERS. STANDARD VI. SELECTIONS FROM PROSE WRITERS, CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED. FRANCIS BACON: 1561–1626. Of Studies.- From his "Essays." STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general councils, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar ; they perfect nature and .are perfected by experience for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple mer admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. |
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