Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-01-07
NEW READING BOOK FOR SCHOOLS.


IIiE MONT OHfIL READER ora Monitor
to Youth, holding up TO their rie1r llodes aehe'eby
totorm their ora Cterac'ers. BIZ Daniel adam.
Autjor Of adams Nctr arithmetic.
Extracts from the Preface.
"TIlE MONiTOiIAL READER posses distinc-
tive traits The object is to supply what IS believed
to be the great doslueratum in schools-A sories
Of exercises rcatina 10 what concerns the practical
matters If le,-truth Integrity, honesty, industry,
temperance forethcught, rugalty patient endurance
Of adversely, and whatever else lends 10 form and
fly the character of youth.
We wish 10 mpr IS it on the minds of those into
whose hand. these cXel cises shall como, now in this
seed time Of life, What is here abundan,ly incu-
Gated, that Every man IS cmphatcay the architect
of his own iorune'-ihat with themselves it lies
whether they hall ever he any thing or nothing
that mnneyed capital TO begin with does not weigh
whit IN the balance for or against them,-tha coming
into life "i h health strength capacity for labor GOOD
education, useful and respectable trade habits Of
industry sobrety, puGctunty, trugality, and above
all, with good and unsulliCd character, they have
t.a hest Of all captGI,-a moral capital the mobiles,
| o!ali power moral power: and the most certain
means OF honest and honorable &C .umuai ion and
fortune, and may be sure, under circumstances ord
nnlty prop0us, TO rise to that competency ofnhu-
oncc respect, and general confidence, and that hon
| orahe measure OF wealth and INDEPENDENCE which
should fully satisfy reasonable and yir,uous ambi
hon"
Extracts from Recommendations
The influence will al he found on the side of virtue
morality and religion. Occasional comments are
given. Difficult or unusual words are defined. Prose
ana pbCiIy UC Sulid!N illtfIilli4Ipu III Is hard
~ TO be imagined that this book should fail of uopu.
arity. 1t certainly would not, had it not so n,anv
competitors hat had got the start of in the race
rs ii is It's ne'to is such as to give fair promise of
Ultimate success N the cOntcst,-BOSton Recorder
DR.. Adams Having examined 10 some extent
your Monolal Reader, am rlcased with lis plon.
ITS object and the manner IN which has been execu.
| ted II seems adapted 10 the intellectual and moral
improvement Of those for whose Use it was designed
uust it vii prove to be what lis author fondly an.
ucpatcs. QIev) 4. S. BARSTOW, Kecnc
II - lust such boot our New England boys
and girls will glad to see, for it inculcaes in a
pleasing manner industry rugality, truth, honesty.
temperance, peace, kindness forirude, and cheerful
pleiy The Vocabulary, end al the and the arrapoe-
meut Tor defining words will add 10 its value in tbs
hands Of n ludicous teacher
Rev) ABEL A. LINERMORE Keene.
we have also recommendations from number OF
individuals and periodicals. among which arc D. Cros.
by, PrecePor of the High School Nashua; J. New.
ton Brown, Professor of Theology at New HAMPTON
II IS so adopted by the Associations of School
Teachers IN Cheshire and Hi sboru' countics, and
by the school Committee Of Concord.
About 5000 copies have been publ shed, and mostly
disposed Of
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MERRILL. North End, Main street. Concord, n. II.
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Principals Of Academies, Select Schools and teach
ors generally are invited 10 examine the book
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