Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and American Authors, from Chaucer to the Present Day, the Whole Arranged in Chronological Order, with Biographical and Critical Remarks

E.H. Butler & Company, 1848 - 384 pages

CHAUCER Critical Notice p 13 On Riches p 13	13

ASCHAM Critical Notice p 22 Importance of a good School	22

STOW Sports on the Ice in the reign of Elizabeth p	29

BACON Critical Notice p 36 Studies p 36 Counsel	44

EARLE Critical Notice p 51 The Clown p	51

TAYLOR Critical Notice p 58 Progress of Sin p	59

MILTON Critical Notice p 68 Origin of the Paradise Lost	71

COWLEY Critical Notice p 75 Character of Cromwell	76

MONTAGU Critical Notice p 229 Inoculation for the Small	231

JOHNSON Critical Notice p 236 Preface to the Dictionary	246

CHATHAM Critical Notice p 254 His last Public	259

BURKE Critical Notice p 263 Difference between him	267

GOLDSMITH Critical Notice p 273 Increased Love of Life	273

ROBERTSON Character of Mary Queen of Scots p	282

BLAIR Sublimity p	289

MACKENZIE Story of La Roche p	295

LESTRANGE Critical Notice p 91 Æsops mode of bring	93

STILLINGFLEET Immoderate SelfLove p	109

BAXTER Critical Notice p 122 Experience of Human Char	123

CLARENDON Critical Notice p 140 Character of Lord	140

BOYLE Critical Notice p 155 The Study of Natural Philo	156

ADDISON Critical Notice p 163 Vision of Mirza p 163	163

DEFOE Critical Notice p 192 The Great Plague in London	192

SWIFT Critical Notice p 198 The Inconveniencies	204

POPE Critical Notice 214 Death of two Lovers by Light	218

BOLINGBROKE Absurdity of Useless Learning p 221	224

PALEY Property 311 The World made with a Benevolent	315

HANNAH MORE Female Accomplishments p	321

WASHINGTON Religion in the People necessary to good	330

THURLOW Reply to the Duke of Grafton p	338

WIRT Blind Preacher p	344

JEFFREY The Genius of Shakspeare p 350 The Steam	353

IRVING The Stage Coach Preparations for Christmas p	361

COOPER Escape of Harvey Birch and Captain Wharton	367

BANCROFT The Puritans p	378

Copyright

Title	Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and American Authors, from Chaucer to the Present Day, the Whole Arranged in Chronological Order, with Biographical and Critical Remarks
Author	John Seely Hart
Publisher	E.H. Butler & Company, 1848
Original from	The Ohio State University
Digitized	25 Sep 2014
Length	384 pages

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