PIECES IN PROSE AND POETRY, SELECTED FROM THE BEST WRITERS. Designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect; to improve their language and sentiments; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue. WITH A FEW PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD READING. IMPROVED BY THE ADDITION OF A CONCORDANT AND SYNONYMISING VOCABULARY, Consisting of about fifteen hundred of the most important words contained in this work. The words are arranged in columns and placed over the sections respectively, from which they are selected; AND ARE DIVIDED, DEFINED, AND PRONOUNCED ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF JOHN WALKER. The words in the Vocabulary and their correspondent words in the sec tions, are numbered with figures of reference. WALKER'S PRONOUNCING KEY, WHICH GOVERNS THE VOCABULARY, IS PREFIXED TO THIS WORK. Words can have no definitive idea attached to them when by themselves; t is the situation and tract in a sentence which determines their precise meaning. Dr. Johnson. BY JEREMIAH GOODRICH. PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY JAS. B. SMITH & CO. NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK, TO WIT: BE it remembered, That on the fifth day of July, in the forty seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1822 E. & E. HOSFORD,* of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:- "Murray's English Reader: or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, selected from the best writers. Designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect: to improve their language and sentiments; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue. With a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading. Improved by the addition of a concordant and synonymising vocabulary, consisting of about fifteen hundred of the most important words contained in this work. The words are arranged in columns and placed over the sectious respectively, from which they are selected'; and are divided, defined, and pronounced, according to the principles of John Walker. The words in the Vocabulary and their correspondent words in the sections, are numbered with figures of reference. Walker's pronouncing key which governs the vocabulary, is prefixed to this work. Words can have no definitive idea attached to them when by themselves: it is the situation and tract in a sentence which determines their precise meanng. Dr. Johnson. By Jeremiah Goodrich." In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an Act entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the time therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching Historical and other Prints." RICHARD R. LANSING, Clerk of the Northern District of N. York. By misprision of the Clerk, the names of E. & E. Hosford, wer inserted in the record and cirtificate, instead of Jeremiah Goodrich. Of the simple and dipthongal vowels, referred to by the figures over the letters in the vocabulary placed before each section of this work. 1. à. The long slender English a, as in fate, på per, &c. 2. 3. The long Italian a, as in får, få ther, pa på, mam må. 3. 3. The broad German a, as in fåll, wåll, water. 1. â. The short sound of the Italian a, as in fât, mât, mârry 1. b. The long open o, as in no, note, no tice. 2. 8. The long close o, as in move, prove. 3. 8. The long broad o, as in nor, för, or; like the broad å 1. u. The long dipthongal u, as in tune, Cù pid. ỏi. The long broad ỏ, and the short 1, as in dil. ¿ů. The long broad ỏ, and the middle obtuse ů, as in thỏủ, pôůnd |