The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Highest Class in Public and Private Schools

William Draper Swan

Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1848 - 484 pàgines

Continguts

• Lesson: 9
• Thoughts on Conversation: 14
• Gems of Poetry: 20
• Advantages of a Wellcultivated Mind Bigland: 27
• Feeling and Sentiment: 38
• Mount Auburn: 45
• Thanatopsis: 52
• Voyage to Europe: 58
• North American Indians: 66
• Plea for the Red: 72
• Marco Bozzaris: 78
• Lochiels Warning: 84
• Extract from a Speech delivered in Congress on the: 88
• The Christian Sabbath: 91
• The Old Cumberland Beggar: 97
• A Prairie on Fire: 103
• A Visit to Rockall: 110
• The Shipwreck: 118
• The Isles of Greece: 120
• Importance of Knowledge to the Mechanic G B EMERSON: 126
• Sunrise on the Hills: 135
• On laying the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monu: 138
• Curiosity: 141
• Description of Niagara: 147
• Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni Coleridge: 156
• An Evening Reverie: 162
• Free Institutions of Government: 170
• The Village Blacksmith: 177
• A Bee Hunt: 184
• Thanksgiving: 190
• To the Past: 197
• A Water Party in Danger: 204
• On the Improvement in the Construction of School: 213
• Industry necessary to form the Orator HENRY WARE JR: 219
• The Hermit: 225
• Same Subject concluded: 235
• Extract from Paradise and the Peri: 242
• Prince Arthur Hubert Attendants Shakspeare: 252
• On the Value of Time to: 259
• dian Bill: 261
• Trials of the Pilgrims: 268
• The Coming of the Pilgrims: 274
• On the Nature of Thunder Storms Edinburgh Review: 281
• On the Death of President Harrison GEORGE PUTNAM: 287
• The Coronation of Winter: 293
• The Hermit of Niagara: 302
• Ode on the Passions: 308
• Rome: 314
• Antonys Address to the Roman Populace Ibid: 329
• Religion the Cause of the Settlements of New: 336
• Dr Bowditch at Home: 342
• Edward and Warwick: 348
• Same Subject concluded: 354
• Same Subject concluded: 361
• Female Accomplishments: 367
• The Burial of Sir John Moore: 374
• Character of Leverett Saltonstall STEPHEN C PHILLIPS: 380
• The Value of Christian Faith: 386
• Reflections of Cardinal Wolsey: 393
• On the Completion of Bunker Hill Monument 17th: 399
• The Laborer: 408
• The Midnight Mail: 414
• George Washington: 420
• Horace Smith: 428
• Speech upon the Bill for the Relief of the Widow: 437
• Idea of a Perfect Woman: 445
• The Influence of Poetry: 454
• Extract from the Life of Jeremiah Smith J H MORISON: 460
• The Life of a LookingGlass: 468
• GLOSSARY: 477

Informació bibliogràfica

• Títol: The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Highest Class in Public and Private Schools
• Autor: William Draper Swan
• Editor: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1848
• Original de: Universitat de Chicago
• Digitalitzat el: 19 Març 2015
• Nre. de pàgines: 484 pàgines