The 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 Piet

Excerpt from The 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

Many selections of excellent matter have been made for the benefit of young-persons. Performances of this kind are of so great utility, that fresh productions of them, and new attempts to im prove the young mind, will scarcely be deemed superfluous, if the Writer make his compilation instructive and interesting, and sufi ciently distinct from others.

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