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199. Address of Brutus to the Roman populace,

PIECES FOR RECITATION, OR SPEAKING.

32. Reply of Red Jacket to the Missionary, at a

council of chiefs, 1805,

78. The Slave Trade,

146. Part of the letter of the British Spy,

149. Conclusion of a discourse delivered at Plymouth,

Mass. 22d Dec. 1820,

174. Reply of Rob Roy to Mr. Osbaldistone,

Philanthropist. 86

WEBSTER. 183

WIRT. 324

HUMOROUS PIECES.

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7. Select sentences and paragraphs, from various authors,

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DIDACTIC PIECES.

MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.

3. Select sentences and paragraphs, from various authors,

17. Lines to a child on his voyage,

18

CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE.

52

Hurdis. 65

Henry K. White. 82

23. On Early Rising,

30. Incentives to Devotion,

31. Ode to Sickness,

35. The Lord and the Judge,

37. Hope triumphant in Death,

38. Lines written during a Thunder-storm,

Anonymous. 84

Lomonosov. 93

Campbell. 94

Russian Anthology. 96

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Byron. 164

Campbell. 255

Byron. 319

Campbell. 323

J. G. PERCIVAL. 330

207. Battle of Flodden Field; and Death of Marmion,

Croly. 426
lbid. 430
Moore. 440
Collins. 445
Shakspeare. 454
Scott. 471

HUMOROUS PIECES.

41. Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's exhibition,

London,

New Monthly Mag. 105

New Monthly Mag. 408
Ibid.

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THE

AMERICAN FIRST CLASS BOOK.

LESSON I.

A devotional spirit recommended to the

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young.-CAPPE. DEVOTION is a delicate and tender plănt: as much as it is our duty and our interest to be possessed of it, it is not easily acquired, neither can it be carelessly maintained.* must be long tended, diligently cultivated, and affectionately cherished, before it will have struck its roots so deep as to grow up and flourish in our hearts; and all along, till it attains to its perfect vigor and maturity in heaven, it needs to be defended from the adverse influences of things seen and temporal, of a vain imagination and an earthly mind.

The best season for acquiring the spirit of devotion is in early life; it is then attained with the greatest facility, and at that season there are peculiar motives for the cultivation of it. Would you make sure of giving unto God his right, and of rendering to the great Creator and Governor of the world the glory due unto his name, begin to do it soon; before the glittering vanities of life have dazzled and enslaved your imagination, before the sordid interests of this world have gotten possession of your soul, before the habits of ambition, or of avarice, or of voluptuousness, or of dissipation, have enthralled you; while your minds are yet free, and your hearts yet tender, present them unto God.

It will be a sacrifice superlatively acceptable unto him, and not less advantageous to yourselves. Beseech him that he will awaken in you every sentiment of piety; beseech him that he will direct and prosper your endeavors to acquire,

* Pron. měn-tāned.

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