Research Catalog

Title

The boy's reading-book : in prose and poetry, for schools.

Author

Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865.

Publication

New York : Published by Taylor & Clement, at the American common school depository, 128 Fulton Street, 1840.

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Details

Description

321 pages; 19 cm

Subject

• 1800 - 1870
• Readers > 1800-1870
• Readers

Contents

Prose -- Knowledge -- The old school house -- Taking food -- Treatment of animals -- The good brother -- Gratitude to teachers -- Night's lessons -- Insects -- Uses of education -- The trembling eye-lid -- Filial virtues of Washington -- Winter -- Shell-fishers -- Sleep -- The only son -- Good manners -- Wealth -- Trees -- Peaceful dispositions -- The grey cottage -- Privileges of the poror -- John and James Williams -- The law -- The farmer -- The Indian king -- Dr. Herman Boerhaave -- Dr. Benjamin Franklin -- Hon. Roger Sherman -- Rev. John Frederic Oberlin -- Hon. Stephen Van Renesselaer -- Poetry -- Filial duty -- The robin -- Scenes of childhood -- The divided burdern -- Agriculture -- The prisoner's question -- Birds in autumn -- Earth's changes -- Return of the parents -- The elm-trees -- The longest day -- The friends of man -- Song of the Icelandic fisherman -- The sea-boy -- First winter morning -- The contrast -- On the admission of Michigan into the union -- Intemperance -- The old man -- The South American statues -- The chari of Uncas -- The doves -- The war-spirit -- The charter oak -- Death of an aged man -- The doom of Uzziah -- Morning and evening -- A Hebrew tale -- Death.

OCLC

• ocm29082662
• 29082662
• SCSB-120738

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library