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LESSON

XXI. PAUL FLEMMING RESOLVES

XXII. A GOOD DAUGHTER

THE FUTURE OF WOMAN

PROCRASTINATION

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Gorham Palfrey

Elliot

XXIII. BE PUNCTUAL
XXIV.

XXV. SHUN DEBT

XXVI. THE LOVE OF TRUTH

XXVII. AN ORDER FOR A PICTURE

XXVIII.

XXIX. DIMES AND DOLLARS

XXX.

PRACTICALITY

XXXI. DO AS YOU WOULD BE DONE BY .

RECIPROCAL KINDNESS

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Edward Young
Sir E. Bulwer-Lytton
Henry Giles
Alice Cary

ILLUSIONS IN RESPECT TO RICHES

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Daniel Webster

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Cowper

XXXII. TACT AND TALENT

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XXXIII. SPEECH AND SILENCE
XXXIV. THE SILENT ACADEMY

London Atlas
Thomas Carlyle 81
From the French

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XXXV. Is Knowledge Power?

85

Sir E. Bulwer-Lytton
Oliver Wendell Holmes

87

XXXVI. THE PLOWMAN

XXXVII. LABOR AND GENIUS XXXVIII. WORK, I

WORK, II

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Sydney Smith 88 John Ruskin 92 Thomas Carlyle 93 XXXIX. SONG OF THE SOWER William Cullen Bryant XL. CONTROL OF THE MIND John Todd XLI. BASIS OF TOLERATION Marcus Aurelius XLII. THE TWO ROADS . Jean Paul Richter XLIII. END OF THE PLAY William Makepeace Thackeray IIO XLIV. CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON

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XLV. LIBERTY

George Bancroft 113 . Orville Dewey 117 Mary Russell Mitford 119 PECULIARITY OF AMERICAN LIBERTY

XLVI. RIENZI TO THE ROMANS XLVII.

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Webster 121

LESSON

XLVIII.

LX.

LXI.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

THE REVOLUTIONARY RISING

Thomas Buchanan Read 123

XLIX.

Daniel Webster 126

L.

LI.

THE SOUTHERN SOLDIER .

John Greenleaf Whittier 128
Henry W. Grady 130
Abraham Lincoln 132

LII.

ADDRESS AT GETTYSBURG

LIII.

THE GRAVES of the PATRIOTS James Gates Percival 133 LIV. OUR DUTY TO THE REPUBLIC . Joseph Story 135 ADDRESS TO THE SURVIVORS OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL Daniel Webster

LV.

LVI. WHAT MAKES A NATION?

W. D. Nesbit

140

LVII. THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS Charles Sumner
LVIII.
George William Curtis 144

LIX.

AMERICAN LOYALTY.

CENTENNIAL HYMN

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PATRIOTISM

THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY

PART II

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NIAGARA

THE FALLS OF NIAGARA
THE SEA AND ITS USES
APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN
THE OCEAN TELEGRAPH
PLEASURES OF SCIENCE
THE LESSON OF THE FERN
POETRY AND SCIENCE

GOD'S FIRST TEMPLES

OUR NATIONAL SONGS

UNITY AND PROGRESS OF MANKIND

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Edward Everett Hale 145

153 Bancroft 154

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Swain 161 Lord Byron 163 William Cullen Bryant 165 Lord Brougham 167 Mary L. Bolles Branch 169

Dr. George Wilson 170 William Cullen Bryant 172 N. P. Willis 177

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Mrs. Sigourney 159
Brainard 160

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James Russell Lowell 179

Francis Jeffrey 181

Cheever 185

LESSON

XIII. MOUNTAINS

XIV. MORNING HYMN TO MOUNT BLANC.

XV. THE NATURAL BRIDGE

XVI.

BEAUTY OF THE CLOUDS

XVII. HYMN TO THE SEASONS

XVIII. JERUSALEM BY MOONLIGHT
XIX. A MORNING HYMN

XX. THE PERCEPTION OF BEAUTY

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge 189

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William Howitt 187

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XXI.

RETIREMENT

XXII.

DELIGHTS OF READING

XXIII. SCENE WITH A PANTHER

XXIV. LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS

XXV. WISE READING.

XXVI. WORDS

XXVII.

SHAKESPEARE'S POWER OF EXPRESSION

XXVIII. THE BIBLE, THE BEST OF CLASSICS
SOCIETY, THE GREAT EDUCATOR
CHRISTMAS FESTIVITY

XXIX.

XXX.

XXXI.

HOME

XXXII. A WINTER EVENING'S REFLECTIONS

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John Ruskin 196
James Thomson 198

Benjamin Disraeli 202
John Milton 205

William Ellery Channing 207
Marcus Aurelius 208
Sir John Lubbock 211
Charles B. Brown 213

Cowper 218

John Todd 219

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Grimke 230

Orville Dewey 231

Washington Irving 234
Henry W. Grady 236

John Greenleaf Whittier 239

J. Cumming 241 244 Horace Greeley 246

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No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.

- MARCUS AURELIUS.

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