THE WHEAT-SHEA E; A SUGGESTIVE READER, CONTAINING GERMS OF PURE AND NOBLE THOUGHTS FOR THE YOUTHFUL MIND. "I found no narrowness respecting sects and opinions: but believed that sincere, Philadelphia: WILLIS P. HAZARD, 724 CHESTNUT STREET 11442,7.15 1863, y Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1856, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. HARVARD APR 13 1971 PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION. THE thought of this volume grew from the belief that it was needed; and its execution lies in the maxim, “Do the duty that is nearest thee.” It is the result of abundant resources, which the gleaner has found it a pleasant labour to arrange in accordance with the dictates of her own taste, and the experience of a more matured judgment. The selections have been made with particular reference to the inculcation of sound and truthful principles, and the spirit and aim of the book are to encourage a taste for the good the pure and the beautiful. Gratified with the reception "The Wheatsheaf" has received at the hands of discriminating friends, this THIRD EDITION is issued, revised, and improved, in the hope that it may be a means of still further usefulness to a yet widening circle, like a pebble cast into the great sea of humanity; and that germs of noble thoughts, and pure impulses, may yet spring from the grain that lies hidden in 66 THE WHEATSHEAF." PHILADA: 10th month, 1856. E. N. |