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THE

English Reader,

OR,

PIECES IN PROSE AND VERSE,

SELECTED FROM THE BEST WRITERS. "

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DESIGNED TO ASSIST YOUNG PERSONS TO READ WITH PROPRIETY
AND EFFECT; TO IMPROVE THEIR LANGUAGE AND SENTI-
MENTS, AND TO INCULCATE SOME OF THE MOST IMPOR-
TANT PRINCIPLES OF PIETY AND VIRTUE.

BY LINDLEY MURRAY,
Author of "An English Grammar," &c. &c.

~TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED,

The Definitions of Inflections & Emphasis,

AND

RULES FOR READING VERSE,

WITH

A KEY,

EXHIBITING THE METHOD OF APPLYING THOSE PRINCIPLES TO THE
PRONUNCIATION OF WRITTEN LANGUAGE.. THE INFLECTIONS,
AS WELL AS EMPHASIS, ARE ALSO ACTUALLY APPLIED, BY
SENSIBLE CHARACTERS, AND AGREEABLY TO THE DI-
RECTIONS CONTAINED IN THE KEY, TO THE WHOLE
OF MR. MURRAY'S SELECTIONS.

BY M. R. BARTLETT,

Author of "The Practical Reader."

Stereotyped by H. & E. Phinney, Cooperstown.

UTICA:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM WILLIAMS,

No. 60, Genesee-Street.

1823.

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