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 an

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TO read with propriety is a pleasing and important attainment; productive of improvement both to the understanding and the heart. It is essential to a complete reader, that he minutely perceive the ideas, and enter into the feelings of the author, whose sentiments he professes to re eat: for how is it possible to represent clearly to others, what we ave but faint or inaccurate conceptions of our selves'

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