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• The American reader; containing elegant selections in prose and poetry: designed for the improvement of youth in the art of reading and speaking with propriety and beauty, and for the cultivation of a correct moral taste. Particularly for the use of schools.
  By: Lyman, Asa.
  Published: (1811)
• The Columbian reader : comprising a new and various selection of elegant extracts in prose and poetry, for the use of schools in the United States, to which is prefixed an introduction on the arts of reading and speaking /
  By: Dickinson, Rodolphus, 1787-1863.
  Published: (1815)
• The art of reading : containing a number of useful rules exemplified by a variety of selected and original pieces, narrative, didactic, argumentative, poetical, descriptive, pathetic, humourous, and entertaining, together with dialogues, speeches, orations, addresses, and harangues : calculated to improve the scholar in reading and speaking with propriety and elegance, and to impress the minds of youth with sentiments of virtue and religion : designed for the use of schools and families /
  By: Staniford, Daniel, 1766-1820.
  Published: (1814)
• Beauties of the Bible; being a selection form the Old and New Testaments, with various remarks and brief dissertations, designed for the use of Christians in general, and particularly for the use of schools, and for the improvement of youth.
  By: Sampson, Ezra, 1749-1823,
  Published: (1806)
• The American reader : a selection of lessons for reading and speaking, wholly from American authors : embracing a great variety of entertaining subjects of history, biography, divinity, laws, natural and moral philosophy, and of other branches of useful and elegant learning : furnishing numerous specimens of American eloquence, from the Presidential chair, the head quarters of the military commander, the seat in Congress, the pulpit on various occasions, the bench of the judge, the bar, station of literary honor, the seat of the muses, and from the shade of private life : containing rules for the proper use of the pauses, for graceful and persuasive pronunciation, and for appropriate and impressive gesture, to improve the scholar in reading and speaking, while enriching the mind with religious, virtuous, and useful knowledge : with an appendix of definitions of the words in this book most difficult for youth to understand : designed for the use of schools /
  By: Richardson, Joseph, 1778-1871.
  Published: (1810)
• Elegant extracts: or, useful and entertaining passages in prose, selected for the improvement of young persons: being similar in design to Elegant extracts in poetry.
  By: Knox, Vicesimus, 1752-1821,
  Published: (1808)
• The arts and sciences abridged : with a selection of pieces, from celebrated modern authors, calculated to improve the manners and refine the taste of youth: particularly designed and arranged for the use of schools /
  By: Peirce, Charles, 1770-1851.
  Published: (1811)
• Lessons in elocution, or, A selection of pieces in prose and verse : for the improvement of youth in reading and speaking /
  By: Scott, William, 1750-1804.
  Published: (1814)
• Farrand's Course of Latin studies, or Classical selections; published in a cheap, correct and improved form comprised in five parts, and particularly designed to facilitate the study of the Latin language. For the use of American schools
  By: Farrand, William P. 1777-1839.
  Published: (1805)
• Introduction to the English reader, or, A selection of pieces in prose and poetry : calculated to improve the younger classes of learners in reading and to imbue their minds with the love of virtue : with rules and observations for assisting children to read with propriety /
  By: Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826.
  Published: (1809)