DIALOGUES, ADDRESSES, AND SOLILOQUIES. 11. Real virtue can love nothing but virtue ;-a Dia- logue :-Dionysius, Pythias, and Damon, 199. Address of Brutus to the Roman populace, PIECES FOR RECITATION, OR SPEAKING. 32. Reply of Red Jacket to the Missionary, at a council of chiefs, 1805, 78. The Slave Trade, 146. Part of the letter of the British Spy, 149. Conclusion of a discourse delivered at Plymouth, Mass. 22d Dec. 1820, 174. Reply of Rob Roy to Mr. Osbaldistone, Philanthropist. 86 WEBSTER. 183 WIRT. 324 HUMOROUS PIECES. 6. Parallel between Pope and Dryden, 65. Scottish Music :-its peculiarity accounted for, 89. Extract from a criticism on Ossian, 97. Character of Mr. James Watt, 141. The Discontented Pendulum, 146. Letter from the British Spy, in Virginia, 7. Select sentences and paragraphs, from various authors, 26 103. Thalaba, among the Ruins of Babylon, 106. Scene after a Summer Shower, 120. Lines written in a Highland Glen, 128. Fingal's Battle with the Spirit of Loda, DIDACTIC PIECES. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. 3. Select sentences and paragraphs, from various authors, 17. Lines to a child on his voyage, 18 CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE. 52 Hurdis. 65 Henry K. White. 82 23. On Early Rising, 30. Incentives to Devotion, 31. Ode to Sickness, 35. The Lord and the Judge, 37. Hope triumphant in Death, 38. Lines written during a Thunder-storm, 142. A belief in the Superintendence of Providence, the only adequate Support under Affliction, 150. Effects of Education upon Individuals :-its 151. An Evening in the Grave-yard, 175. Prophecy of the Destruction of Babylon, Lowth's translation of Isaiah. 401 Mrs. Barbauld. 413 475 108. Affecting picture of Constancy in Love, Crabbe. 242 DRAMATIC PIECES. DIALOGUES, ADDRESSES, AND SOLILOQUIES. 185. Speech of Catiline, in reply to Cicero, 188. Speech of Catiline, on his banishment, 207. Battle of Flodden Field; and Death of Marmion, Croly. 426 HUMOROUS PIECES. 41. Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's exhibition, London, New Monthly Mag. 105 New Monthly Mag. 408 425 THE AMERICAN FIRST CLASS BOOK. LESSON I. A devotional spirit recommended to the It young.-CAPPE. DEVOTION is a delicate and tender plănt: as much as it is our duty and our interest to be possessed of it, it is not easily acquired, neither can it be carelessly maintained.* must be long tended, diligently cultivated, and affectionately cherished, before it will have struck its roots so deep as to grow up and flourish in our hearts; and all along, till it attains to its perfect vigor and maturity in heaven, it needs to be defended from the adverse influences of things seen and temporal, of a vain imagination and an earthly mind. The best season for acquiring the spirit of devotion is in early life; it is then attained with the greatest facility, and at that season there are peculiar motives for the cultivation of it. Would you make sure of giving unto God his right, and of rendering to the great Creator and Governor of the world the glory due unto his name, begin to do it soon; before the glittering vanities of life have dazzled and enslaved your imagination, before the sordid interests of this world have gotten possession of your soul, before the habits of ambition, or of avarice, or of voluptuousness, or of dissipation, have enthralled you; while your minds are yet free, and your hearts yet tender, present them unto God. It will be a sacrifice superlatively acceptable unto him, and not less advantageous to yourselves. Beseech him that he will awaken in you every sentiment of piety; beseech him that he will direct and prosper your endeavors to acquire, * Pron. měn-tāned. |