The new school reader. Fourth book : embracing a comprehensive system of instruction in the principles of elocution : with a choice collection of reading lessons in prose and poetry, from the most approved authors : for the use of academies, and the higher classes in schools, etc

Ivison, Phinney & Co, 1869. Hardcover. Acceptable. [Mid-19th Century American Education] Publisher's binding. Spine leather chipped at edges. Some foxing. Binding weak. Contents: 384 pages : music ; 19 cm.Contents: Articulation --Accent and emphasis --Inflections --Modulation --The rhetorical pause --Knowledge better than wealth / Mrs. Barbauld --Prairie dogs / W. Irving --A mother's advice to her son / Madam Campan --The light of home / Mrs. Hale --My father's at the helm / Anon. --The honest young lawyer and his client / Rev. John Todd --Sources of success in business / Rev. John Angell James --All can do good / Catharine Talbot --Who is my neighbor / Anon. --The blind boy / Rev. F. L. Hawks --The teacher's fable / Mrs. Emily C. Judson --The two roads / Jean Paul Richter --The youthful voyager / J. T. Headley --Let virtue be your aim / C. Jillson --The voice of nature / Krummacher --Theory and practice / Jane Taylor --To-morrow / Anon. --Procrast/ Charles Mackay --Injudicious haste in study / John Locke --Benefits of reading / Anon. --The true test of a book / Southey --The value of a gift / O. G. Warren --The blasted pine / H. W. Heywood --The true test of integrity / Rev. W. H. Van Doren --The three heavy stones / Anon. --The cure of envy / Sir George Mackenzie --The crocus' soliloquy / H. F. Gould --Youthful amusements / N. P. Willis --The bobolink / Washington Irving --A dinner of tongues / Anon. --Never despair / Wm. C. Richards --Advice to a young man / Ben Jonson --Verner --Albert --Tell / Knowles --The prodigal son / Bible --The ant and the butterfly / Anon. --The silver bird's nest / H. F. Gould --Rules for improvement by conversation / Dr. Watts --The spider and the bee / Dean Swift --Onward, onward / Linnaeus Banks --Human progress / J. Hagan --A Psalm of life / Longfellow --Hazael and his teacher / Krummacher --The fire-waters / S. W. Seton --Value of character / Rev. John Todd --The clock and the dial / Anon. --The king and the rustic / Oldham's Humorous Speaker --The bird-catcher and his canary / Pratt's Gleanings --The cynic / Rev. Henry Ward Beecher --The crop of acorns / L. H. Sigourney / The hour-glass / John Quincey Adams --Practice makes perfect / John Locke --Industry and frugality lead to wealth / Dr. Franklin --The needle / Samuel Woodworth --Nature's nobleman / M. Farquhar Tupper --The false position / Knickerbocker Mag. --Enemies of the whale / H. T. Cheever --My native bay / Anon. --Judge not / Anon. --The ambitious youth / Elihu Burritt --The yankee boy / Rev. John Pierpont --My country / Rev. Geo. W. Bethune --Attachment of dogs to their masters / Chambers' Mis. --Precepts / Sir Matthew Hale --Revenge of injuries / Elizabeth Carew --Forgiveness / Bishop Heber --The earth before the creation of man / Bridgewater Treatises --Moral dignity of labor / Rev. Stephen H. Tyng --Tribute to genius and labor / Epes Sargent --True nobility / Charles Swain --Selections from the proverbs of Solomon / Bible --The wine cup / Rev. Samuel W. Fisher --The cold water man / John G. Saxe --Fifty years ago / W. D. Gallagher --Society of animals / Smellie --The lark / Wilson --Ode to the lark / James Hogg --Importance of early rising / Catharine Talbot --Danger of riches / Rev. Orville Dewey --Real and apparent happiness / Jeremy Taylor --Emptiness of riches / Edward Young --The miser / Robert Pollok --Reflections on early death / Alexander Pope --The being and attributes of God / Maxey --The daisy / J. M. Good --God is everywhere / Hugh Hutton --How to meet adversity / Rev. Henry Ward Beecher --Character of Charles Twelfth / Oliver Goldsmith --Results of ambition / Johnson --Influence of good deeds and words / Charles Mackay --Language of a man of education / Coleridge --Rivers / Brande --Lines on receiving his mother's picture / Cowper --The world for sale / Rev. Ralph Hoyt --The Mississippi scheme / Rev. W. H. Van Doren --Address to young students / Knox --How to make a scholar / Daniel Webster --The light-house / Thomas Moore --A modest wit / Anon. --Classical studies / Joseph Story --Enduring monuments / Edinburgh Review --The owl in the ruin / J. H. A. Bone --Steadfastness / Horace Rublee --Speech of an Indian Chief --Precepts / Sir Matthew Hale --My birth-day / Thomas Moore --Labor / Frances Osgood --Law / Richard Hooker --Reproof to an Affected Speaker / La Bruyere --A fond sister's love / Shakespeare --Brother Jonathan's ships / George Grenville --The newspaper / Rev. William Adams --Superiority of wisdom / Robert Hall --Working man's song / Charles Mackay --Jupiter dividing the earth / W. H. Woodbury --Every man the architect of his own fortune / Macdiarmid --Our miseries often our faith / Blair --True patriotism / Sir William Jones --The German's fatherland / From the German of Arndt --Active benevolence of the gospel / Chalmers --Reflections on Napoleon and the murder of the Duke d'Enghien / Lamartine --Death of Napoleon / Isaac M'Lellan --Man was made to mourn / Robert Burns --Debate: Which is preferable, city or country life / From McElligott's American Debater --Advice to a young critic / Alexander Pope --The fretful man / William Cowper --The cultivation of the mind / Humphrey --Self-reliance / R. Waldo Emerson --The way to meet adversity / Horace by Cowper --As thy days, so shall they strength be / L. H. Sigourney --Agricultural pursuits / Horace Greeley --Parting address to La Fayette / John Quincy Adams --The might with the right / W. E. Hickson --Falls of the Mohawk / Thomas Moore --Public virtue / Henry Clay --Death of Henry Clay / Rev. C. M. Butler, D. D. --Henry Clay / George D. Prentice --The sun an exhibition of omnipotence / Thomas Dick --An appeal on behalf of temperance and virtue / Horace Mann --The accusing bell / From the German of Langbein, by J. N. McElligot --Sound, as a principle of mental association / John Kidd --Charity / Bible --Pleasures of hope / Thomas Campbell --"God bless our stars forever" / Benjamin F. Taylor --South Carolina during the revolution / Hon. Mr. Hayne --South Carolina and Massachusetts / Daniel Webster --Daniel Webster as an orator / William H. Seward --The tear / Byron --Lord Byron / Robert Pollock --Dialogue with the gout / Adapted from Benjamin Franklin --Moral cosmetics / Horace Smith --Bunker Hill monument / Louis Kossuth --Speak boldly / W. Oland Bourne --Marco Bozzaris / Fitz-Greene Halleck --Taxes, taxes / Sydney Smith --Instruction of deaf mutes / Rev. William Adams --Test of true friendship / William Cowper --Order of creation / Alexander Pope --Character of Washington / Phillips --David's lament for his son, Absalom / N. P. Willis --Miscellaneous Paragraphs / Various authors --Athenian patriotism / Demosthenes --Morning hymn / Milton --The bible and the Iliad / Francis Wayland --The thunder storm / George D. Prentice --Human knowledge / Edward Everett --Never say fail / Glaser --I love the west / G. W. Sanders.