James Cronan, and William B, Giles Egan, to the Children of their motheisvalued trend Mamias Itseph Crilly with their artie's hopes, that they may derive both amusement, and instruction prem the frages. ACADEMICAL READER, COMPRISING SELECTIONS FROM THE Most Admired Authors, DESIGNED TO PROMOTE THE LOVE OF VIRTUE, PIETY, AND PATRIOTISM: TO ASSIST THE STUDENT TO READ WITH PROPRIETY, CONVERSE WITH COMPILED BY JOHN J. HARROD. "Happy are they whose amusement is knowledge, and whose chief delight is the cul- "May Columbia always afford more than one Demosthenes, to support the cause of STEREOTYPE EDITION. BALTIMORE: PUBLISHED BY JOHN J. HARRod, 172 markeT ST.-GEO. M'DOWELL & SON, ........ DISTRICT OF MARYLAND, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this first day of May, in the fifty-fourth year of ********* the independence of the United States of America, JOHN J. HARROD, L. S. of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the ********* right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "The Academical Reader, comprising Selections from the most Admired Authors, designed to promote the love of Virtue, Piety, and Patriotism; to assist the student to read with propriety, converse with fluency and ease, and to speak in public with dignity and effect. Compiled by John J. Harrod. Happy are they whose amusement is knowledge, and whose chief delight is the cultivation of the mind! Wherever they shall be driven by the persecution of Fortune, the means of employment are still with them; and that weary listlessness, which renders life insupportable to the voluptuous and the indolent, is unknown to those who can employ themselves by reading.-Telemachus.- May Columbia always afford more than one Demosthenes, to support the cause of Freedom; and may more than Ciceronian eloquence be always ready to plead for injured innocence, and suffering virtue.'-Perkins." In conformity to the act of 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 therein mentioned;" and also to the act entitled, " An act supplementary to the 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 other prints." PHILIP MOORE, Clerk of the District of Maryland. STEREOTYPED BY H. SIMMONS & co. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. IN presenting to the public the second edition of the Academical Reader, revised and improved, the compiler cannot repress the expression of his sincere acknowledgements of gratitude for the general and unequivocal marks of approbation by which the first edition has been characterized. The respectable recommendations forwarded to the publisher by Principals of Seminaries, male and female, and others of distinguished literary attainments; have imparted an interest to this work which will, no doubt, be highly appreciated by the public. Whilst this edition has been much improved by increasing the number of sections, and marking them in regular numerical order, the pages of the matter contained in the second edition will be found to correspond with the same matter in the first edition. A few pieces have been introduced in place of others of less general interest, in the former edition. The very rapid sale of the first edition induces the expectation that a third edition will be demanded in a short time. THE COMPILER. December 8th, 1830. |