Found In: The American First Class Book; or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation: Selected Principally from Modern Authors of Great Britain and America; and Designed for the Use of the Highest Class in Publick and Private Schools. By John Pierpont. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins and Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, 1831.
LESSON XXXII.
Reply to the [...]
Full Title: Observations on Professions, Literature, Manners, and Emigration, in the United States and Canada, Made During a Residence There in 1832. By the Rev. Isaac Fidler . . . New-York: Published by J. & J. Harper, no. 82, Cliff-Street; and sold by the principal booksellers throughout the United States, MDCCCXXXIII.
CHAPTER III.
Reasons for abandoning the [...]
Full Title: Lectures on History, and General Policy: To which is prefixed, An Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life. By Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F. R. S. Third Edition. Dublin: Printed for Luke White and P. Byrne. 1791.
An Essay on a Course of Liberal Education, For Civil and Active Life. [...]
Full Title: Dissertations on the English Language: with Notes, Historical and Critical. To which is added, by way of Appendix, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, with Dr. Franklin’s Arguments on that Subject. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire. Boston: Printed for the author, by Isaiah Thomas and Company, MDCCLXXXIX.
APPENDIX.
An ESSAY
On the NECESSITY, ADVANTAGES [...]
Full Title: Sketches of the History of Dartmouth College and Moors’ Charity School, with a Particular Account of Some Late Remarkable Proceedings of the Board of Trusties, from the Year 1779 to the Year 1815. [n.i.]
VI. AN ACCOUNT OF MOORS’ [Indian Charity] SCHOOL
Continued.
Proper informations, and satisfactory evidences being given to the Hon. Society in Scotland, [...]
Full Title:
Il Cortegiano, or The Courtier: Written by Conte Baldassar Castiglione. And a New Version of the same into English. Together with Several of his Celebrated Pieces, as well Latin as Italian, both in Prose and Verse. To which is prefix’d, The Life of the Author. By A.P. Castiglione, of the same Family. Printed in [...]
Full Title:
A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings. On Moral, Historical, Political, and Literary Subjects. By Noah Webster, Jun. Attorney at Law. Printed at Boston for the Author, by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1790.
On the Education of Females
In a system of education, that should embrace every part of the community, the female sex claim [...]
Full Title:
History of Animals; Designed for the Instruction and Amusement of Persons of Both Sexes by Noah Webster, Jun. Esq. Printed in New-Haven by Walter & Steele, 1812.
Excerpt from “MAN”
16. Of the human race. Among the countless species of animals which inhabit the globe; Man holds the first rank. He is not indeed the largest [...]
Full Title: The New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository for October, 1794. From the Monthly Review for May, 1794. LETTER FROM A FATHER TO HIS SON, ON VARIOUS TOPICS. By J. Aiken, M.D.
It is impossible to compare the established modes of education with the present state of knowledge without perceiving that they are defective in several [...]
Full Title:
The Works of John Locke, in Four Volumes. The Eighth Edition. London, 1777.
From the Epistle to the Reader from the Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
Reader,
I here put into thy hands, what has been the diversion of some of my idle and heavy hours: if it has the good luck to prove so of any [...]
