The style also of these selections has been the subject of assiduous attention. Correctness and variety have been sought for. But, as this is a matter of taste, to be referred to the ultimate standard of taste, the common sense of the public, it would be unbecoming to say more, than that the compilers have used their best endeavors to guard against all reasonable objection on this score. The authors from whom they have selected, will generally be found to have already received the seal of public approbation, as classics of the English language. It has been the aim of the compilers to give every lesson a degree of unity and completeness; so that it might be rather a whole, than a fragment. Mere detached sentences, the understanding of which presupposes an acquaintance with their preceding and subsequent connections, have been studiously rejected; for the obvious reason, that scholars cannot be expected to derive improvement from the reading of exercises they do not understand. The above remarks will sufficiently show the character intended to be given to the work. How far that character has been attained, is, with feelings of profound deference, referred to the tribunal of public opinion. Boston, Sept. 1833 B. D. E. TABLE OF CONTENTS. N. Y. Mirror Drummond Griffin T. Flint National Recollections the Foundation of National Character E. Everett Jefferson The Emigrant's Abode in Ohio Mont Blanc in the Gleam of Sunset Great Effects result from Little Causes Mount Etna The Ivy The Pleasures of Religion London Encyclopædia Drummond Truth and Falsehood. An Allegory The Escape Escape from a Panther The Dead Sea Reception of Columbus on his Return from Spain Second Extract from the same The Danger of a Military Spirit The Mystery of Life - The same concluded Close of Mr. Brougham's Speech on the Reform Bill - The Poetry of Ossian The Pleasures of Science Heroism of a Physician Funeral at Sea Imlac's Description of a Poet The Three Kingdoms of Nature - Reflections on the Moslem Dominion in Spain Surrender of Grenada by the Moors to Ferdinand and Isabella Early Recollections Brougham 179 Studies of Nature Mudie 190 192 The Love of our Country strengthened by the Observation of Nature Ibid. Wilson 195 Ibid. |
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