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CONTENTS.
PAGE
INTRODUCTI
INTRODUCTION.
General Observations on the Arts of Reading and Speaking,
9.
On the Reading or Recitation of different Species of Prose
and Poetry,
36
Importance of a serious examination of Christianity, Paley. 55
Religion contrasted with unbelief,
Christianity an internal principle,
Just distribution of Nature,
PAGE.
General correctness of the public estimate of talents, Wirt. 72
Means of perpetuating the memory of the illustrious, Smith. 74.
Happiness,
National pride,
Literary retirement,
Declension of literary taste,
Addison's Spectator,
Addison. 75
Port Folio. ib.
90
91
92
Passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge in Vir
Thompson's Seasons,
Female education,
Geography,
ginia,
Falls of Niagara,
White Mountains in New-Hampshire,
Mount Etna,
New Edinburgh
Earthquakes,
Comets,
Jefferson.
Anon.
Belknap.
Encyclopedia. 93
Port Folio. 94
Extract from Mr. Burke's Speech on conciliation with America, 141
debts,
on declining the election, 142
on Mr. Fox's East India Bill, 144
on the Nabob of Arcot's
Extract from Mr. Curran's Speech on the trial of Rowan,
151
Extract from Mr. Curran's Speech on the trial of Finerty, 154
Extract from Mr. Wirt's Speech on the trial of Aaron Burr,
for high treason,
Extract from Mr. Russell's Oration on American Indepen-
dence,
156
160
Extract from a Sermon on the resurrection of our Sav-
iour,
ib.
Extract from Dr. Dwight's Sermon on Duelling,
161
Hospitality,
Wilson.
Scene from Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming,
Happy power of love, and advice to cherish it, Tighe.
The soldier of the Alps,
178
180
Port Folio. 181
American Scenery,
Barlow.
183
rarely described by the muse,
186
The Susquehanna,
Means of education in the United States,
Mr. Cooke's address on the Philadelphia stage, Port Folio.
193