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The Mount Vernon Reader: A Course Of Reading Lessons Selected With Reference To Their Moral Influence On The Hearts And Lives Of The Young, Designed For Middle Classes by Jacob Abbott. The Mount Vernon Reader is a 19th-century anthology designed for use in schools and homes. Comprised of short biographical sketches, fables, dialogues, and poems, the book aims to cultivate piety, patriotism, and virtuous conduct in boys and girls through narrative rather than direct exhortation. The editor's Preface explains that moral influence is best achieved as readers follow exemplary characters and realistic situations rather than formal instruction. The selections emphasize gratitude to parents, obedience, diligence, kindness to siblings, temperance, honesty, and self-control, and they present consequences of vice in accessible stories such as diligence vs idleness, truancy, impatience, and deceit. The volume also includes moral reflections on public virtue, the example of George Washington, and religious duties. The text is presented as a tool for middle-class education, blending moral instruction with readable prose to form heartful habits for life here and hereafter.
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