The American reader
Subtitle: A selection of lessons for reading and speaking. : Wholly from American authors. : Embracing a great variety of entertaining subjects of history, biography, divinity, laws, natural and moral philosophy, and of other branches of useful and elegant learning. [Twelve lines of text] : With an appendix of definitions of the words in this book most difficult for youth to understand. : Designed for the use of schools
By: By Joseph Richardson, A.M. Minister of the First Parish in Hingham. ; [One line from the Bible]
Contributors: Lincoln & Edmands
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Printed and published by Lincoln & Edmands, no. 53 Cornhill--
Published: 1813
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: American literature; Literary collections
Other titles: Richardson's American reader.
Notes: At head of title: Richardson's American reader.

"Furnishing numerous specimens of American eloquence: from the presidential chair, the head quarters of the military commander, the seat in Congress, the pulpit on various occasions, the bench of the judge, the bar, stations of literary honor, the seat of the muses, and from the shade of private life. Containing rules for the proper use of pauses, for graceful and per-suasive pronunciation, and for appropriate and impressive gesture; to improve the scholar in reading and speaking, while enriching the mind with religious, virtuous, and useful knowledge."--title page.

Preface, p. [iii]-iv, dated: Hingham, Dec. 1, 1810.

Advertisement to the second edition, p. iv, dated: Hingham, April 24, 1813.

Copyright Apr. 14, 1813 by Joseph Richardson.

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