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THE HEMANS YOUNG LADIES' READER.

THE

HEMANS READER

FOR

FEMALE SCHOOLS:

CONTAINING

EXTRACTS IN PROSE AND POETRY,

SELECTED FROM THE WRITINGS OF MORE THAN

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY DIFFERENT AUTHORS.

By T. S. PINNEO, A. M., M. D.

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ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year Eighteen Hundred and Forty-seven, BY WINTHROP B. SMITH, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Ohio.

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THE Lessons, contained in this book, have been selected with great care, from a large amount of material examined for the purpose. Every article has been carefully studied with reference to its instructive character, to its interest, to its appropriateness as an exercise for reading, and, also, especially with regard to its adaptedness to the cultivation of the female mind and heart. The development of correct sentiment and taste, the encouragement of gentle and amiable feeling, and the regulating and maturing of the social affections, have been objects constantly prominent in the mind of the compiler.

The title given to the work seems appropriate, as a tribute of respect and admiration to one, whose writings, purely and distinctly feminine, present to youthful aspiration a high standard of intellectual and moral excellence, and open a pure fount of religious sentiment and refined feeling.

More than one hundred and thirty different authors, male and female, are represented in this volume, and, in every instance, where practicable, the selection has been made directly from an edition issued under the eye of its author. Accuracy, beauty, and variety of style have, also, been carefully consulted, and alterations have been freely made, whenever necessary to secure this object. While it has been made an object of importance to give a decidedly moral and religious character to the instruction conveyed, every point of sectarian opinion has been carefully avoided.

Directions for reading are given in the introductory article, which may be useful as a review of previous instruction on the subject, or may be profitably made an introductory study, whenever this essential part of education has been neglected.

A few elliptical lessons have been introduced, which, while they give variety and interest to the work, and are adapted for practice in reading, serve also, as useful exercises in grammatical construction and composition.

To the teachers and pupils of that class for which it has been especially prepared, this work is presented, with the hope that it may, in some degree, prepare the youthful mind and heart for the high and holy duties of active life, and give an impulse and direction to that progressive development which will never cease, while the immortal part of our nature shall continue to exist.

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