Murray's English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers: Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading : Improved by the Addition of a Concordant and Synonymising Vocabulary, Consisting of about Fifteen Hundred of the Most Important Words Contained in this Work : the Words are Arranged in Columns and Placed Over the Sections Respectively, from which They are Selected, and are Divided, Defined, and Pronounced According to the Principles of John Walker : the Words in the Vocabulary and Their Correspondent Words in the Sections, are Numbered with Figures of Reference : Walker's Pronouncing Key, which Governs the Vocabulary, is Prefixed to this Work ...Published and sold wholesale and retail by S Shaw, 1826 - Printing - 279 pages |