THE AMERICAN PRECEPTOR IMPROVED: BEING A NEW SELECTION OF LESSONS FOR READING AND SPEAKING. DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS. BY CALEB BINGHAM, A. M. "Train up a child in the way he should go-" SIXTY-SIXTH (SIXTH IMPROVED EDITION. ROCHESTER, N. Y. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS- to wüt: District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tbirtieth day of August, A. D. 1819, in the forty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, C. BINGHAM & Co. of the L. S. said district, bare deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to.wit :-"The American Preceptor Improved: being a new Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking. Designed for the use of Schools. By Caleb Bingham, A. M. Author of the Columbian Orator, Child's Companion, &c. “Train up a child in the way be should go.” Sixtyfirst (first improved) edition" In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times thereio mentioned ;” and also to an Act, entitled is An act supplementary to an act, entitled An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching Historical and Prints." J. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. Page. H Η 5 ISTORY of Demosthenes. Parable against Religious Persecution. Ingenious Villany finally punished. The child trained up for the gallows. Sketch of Jerusalem and Palestine. Of Queen Mary and the Martyrs. Story of Logan, a Mingo Chief. The aged Prisoner released from the Bastile. Sketch of the Life of William Penn. Sketch of the Life of Fernando Cortez. Dialogue between Fernando Cortez and William Penn. True Patriotism displayed at the Siege of Calais. The Unfortunate Philanthropist. St. Paul's Speech before King Agrippa. Parental Affection. Story of the Bear. Extract froin the Speech of Mr. Phillips. Conclusion of the foregoing Speech. Example of Justice and Magnanimity. Speech of Mr. Pitt on the Slave Trade. Fashionable Education misapplied. Singular Adventure of General Putnam. . . 12 13 14 18 21 23 25 30 33 35 36 39 43 45 46 47 49 52 55 56 60 61 62 63 65 66 68 72 88 91 |