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The Classical Reader: A Selection Of Lessons In Prose And Verse, From The Most Esteemed English And American Writers : Intended For The Use Of The Higher Classes In Public And Private Seminaries" by Francis William Pitt Greenwood; G. B. Emerson is a nineteenth-century didactic reader designed for moral, religious, and classical education. This volume interweaves short essays, dialogues, poems, travel sketches, and sermons with the aim of shaping character, virtue, and taste. Across its Prose and Verse sections, it presents lessons on virtue, piety, self-control, patriotism, liberty, and civic duty, along with reflections on nature, history, and the uses of literature in daily life. Pedagogical in tone, its pieces model self-scrutiny, temperance, benevolence, and the disciplined habit of reading as a means to public service. The selections draw on British and American authors, classical allusions, and contemporary concerns, offering a versatile program for teachers and students to cultivate ethical discernment, literary appreciation, and virtuous conduct. Its front matter explains aims for broad schooling, with a two-part structure of Lessons in Prose and Lessons in Verse and a mix of authors, including American and British voices.
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