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Indebtedness to Society-Mountford. Love of Home - Webster.
Resistance to Ridicule Sydney Smith. Of Veracity - Way-
land. Perseverance under Failure Niebuhr. Abuse of the
Imagination-Jane Taylor. Idleness Chambers. A Habit of
JestingIb. Local Associations-Johnson,

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Obligations to Literature-

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Hood. The Worth of Books

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ning. Moral Influence of a Literary Taste -- Hillard.
bleness of a Taste for Reading-
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Herschel The Habit may be

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Extent of the Universe. The Atmosphere - Qu. Review.
The Steam-engine-Jeffrey. Ignorance of Great Physical Truths
Life Light-Liebig. Wonders of the Created Universe
Herschell On the Vastness of the Universe- Whewell,
CHAMBERS,
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Ulysses' Dog. Feigned Courage- Miss Lamb. Beauty Gay.
The Pleasures of Memory · Rogers. Ambition Byron.

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A Prayer - Thomson. Providence Inscrutable-Addison. Essen-
tial Knowledge attainable by All Wordsworth. Knowledge and
Wisdom- Cowper. To Duty-Wordsworth. Death of the Young
and Fair-Conscientious Discharge of Duty - Bryant. Hope and
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Trust in God-Young. He lives long who lives well-Randolph.
Retirement Goldsmith. The Old Man by the Brook
worth. Freedom - Bryant. Folly of Procrastination- Practical
Charity Crabbe. The Guilty Conscience Byron. Prayer -
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The Lessons of this Part contain much that the memory should be repeatedly refreshed with; and they have been constructed and arranged to serve us Reading Exercises, either after some of the simpler Exercises of Part II., or before, according to the capacity of pupils

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1. THE ability to read aloud in an easy and agreeable manner ought to rank first among the physical and intellectual accomplishments of the young. Apart from the service it may enable us to render to others, is the benefit to health which the habit of exercising the voice, under proper restrictions, may afford. "Reading aloud, and recitation," says Dr. Combe, "are more useful and invigorating muscular exercises than is generally imagined.”

2. To attain a good elocutionary delivery, the articulation must be firm and complete, the pronunciation correct, the modulation or management of the voice appropriate, and the expression animated and sympathetic. In proportion as these conditions are complied with, the delivery will be distinct, significant, and impressive. Audibleness depends less on a loud voice than on a clear and faithful articulation.

3. It will thus be seen that there are three stages of advancement for the pupil. In the first, his attention is confined to the mechanical effort of uttering letters, syllables and words, with precision and ease; in the second, which presupposes the first, he utters sentences according to their

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