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Excerpt from The 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 The Compiler has been careful to avoid every ex pression and sentiment, that might gratify a corrupt mind, or, in the least degree, offend the eye or ear of innocence. This he conceives to be peculiarly incum bent on every person who writes for the benefit. Of youth. It would, indeed, be a great and happy 1m provement in education, if no writings were allowed to come under their notice, but such as are perfectly ia nocent; and if, on all proper occasions, they wete eu couraged to peruse those which tend to inspire a due reverence for virtue, and an abhorrence of vice, as well as to animate them with sentiments of piety and good ness. Such impressions deeply engraven on their minds, and connected with all their attainments, could scarcely failof attending them through life and of pro ducing a solidity of principle and character, that would be able to resist the danger arising from future inter course with the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.