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The Universal Class-Book: A Ser. Of Reading Lessons by Samuel Maunder is a 19th-century educational reader consisting of daily Reading Lessons designed for schoolchildren. It blends history, biography, science, descriptive prose, and poetry to cultivate virtue, intellect, and refined taste, with appended questions for examination to guide teachers and students. The volume is organized largely by months (e.g., January and February in the excerpt), with lessons that present a narrative or descriptive piece about people, events, or concepts, followed by short poems or prose and a set of questions. Its aims emphasize moral instruction, practical teaching, and the development of observation, order, and curiosity through topics ranging from notable figures (General Wolfe, Cicero, Nelson, Linnaeus, Shakespeare, Luther) to scientific primers and natural history, travel writing, and reflective poetry. It promotes a calm, classical approach to education, stressing virtue, patriotism, and the humane cultivation of mind, character, and taste across disciplines through a mix of prose, verse, and guided inquiry.
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