The fourth progressive reader
THE ILLUSTRATED PROGRESSIVE SERIES.
CAREFULLY ARRANGED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS.
NEW YORK: P. O’SHEA, PUBLISHER; 27 BARCLAY STREET. 1871.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, By P. O’SHEA, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
The selections for the Fourth Progressive Reader have been made with great care, and, if the judgment of some of our most accomplished teachers may be trusted, with becoming discrimination.
Lessons have been selected that are interesting to the young, and that convey, each, an instructive moral in such a way as to impress itself deeply on the mind of the pupil. They have also been selected and arranged with a view to affording the best possible exercises in reading.
New selections have been made from several distinguished writers. Those from Archbishop Spalding, Father Lacordaire, Doctor Newman, Miss Hoffman, and Brother Philippe, are in every respect excellent.
Short biographical sketches have been appended of the different authors from whose works selections, have been made. In making those selections care has been taken to furnish examples of the various styles of composition, and in doing this whatever could be found most interesting and instructive was sought for; whilst every thing dull, frivolous, or at all tinctured with erroneous views or principles has been rigidly excluded.
The Lessons are a grade higher than those of the Third Reader, but nothing supposed to be above the capacity or intelligence of children who have read through the preceding books of the Series has been introduced.
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
TABLE OF VOWEL SOUNDS.
TABLE OF CONSONANT SOUNDS.
EXERCISES ON THE VOWEL SOUNDS.
INTRODUCTION.
PRONUNCIATION.
ARTICULATION.
ACCENT.
TIME.
EMPHASIS.
INFLECTION.
CIRCUMFLEX INFLECTION.
MONOTONE.
PARENTHESIS AND PARENTHETICAL CLAUSES.
TONE.
EXPRESSION AND ENERGY.
ON READING OF VERSE.
RESTS IN VERSE.
PART SECOND.
I.—TEACHING AND CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST.
II.—LITTLE AT FIRST, BUT GREAT AT LAST
III.—THE DEVOTED SON AND THE GENEROUS STRANGER.
IV.—THE CHRISTIAN MOTHER.
V.—WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE.
VI.—THE TWO ROADS.
VII.—THE LABORERS.
VIII.—THE BOY.
IX.—THE YOUNG SHEPHERD.
X. THE YOUNG SHEPHERD—Continued.
XI.—OLD TIMES.
XII.—THE BROKEN HEART.
XIII.—LITTLE VICTORIES.
XIV.—LITTLE VICTORIES.—Continued.
XV.—OUR TITLES.
XVI.—THE WIDOW OF THE PINE COTTAGE.
XVII.—A PSALM OF LIFE.
XVIII.—LET VIRTUE BE YOUR AIM.
XIX. -THE BOBOLINK.
XX.—THE BOBOLINK.—Continued.
XXI.—WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?
XXII.—PORTRAIT OF A VIRTUOUS AND ACCOMPLISHED WOMAN.
XXIII.—THE WORK OF TO-DAY.
XXIV.—THE AVARICIOUS MILLER.
XXV.—THE DEATH OF THE LITTLE SCHOLAR.
XXVI.—GOD, THE TRUE SOURCE OF CONSOLATION.
XXVII.—THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. AGNES.
XXVIII.—THE MONK OF ST. FRANCIS.
XXIX.—MY MOTHER’S GRAVE.
XXX.—GOOD COUNSEL.
XXXI.—THE SISTER OF CHARITY.
XXXIII.—MY BIRTHDAY.
XXXIV.—LABOR.
XXXV.—OUR MISERIES OFTEN OUR FAULT.
XXXVII.—INFLUENCE OF RELIGION ON THE TYROLESE.
XXXVIII.—HYMN OF THE MOUNTAINEERS.
XXXIX.—EXHORTATION TO PRAYER.
XL.—BEHIND TIME.
XLI.—EVIL INFLUENCE OF SKEPTICISM.
XLII.—DAVID’S LAMENT FOR ABSALOM.
XLIII.—A STORM AT SEA.
XLIV.—THE ATMOSPHERE.
XLV.—THE CHERWELL WATER-LILY.
XLVI.—DISCRETION.
XLVII.—STABILITY OF CHARACTER.
THE YEAR OF SORROW—IRELAND—1849.
XLVIII.—SPRING.
XLIX.—SUMMER.
L.—AUTUMN.
LI.—WINTER.
LII.—DEATH OF LITTLE NELL.
LIII.—SORROW FOR THE DEAD.
LIV.—ISABELLA THE CATHOLIC, QUEEN OF SPAIN.
LV.—PALESTINE.
LVI.—LOVE OF COUNTRY AND OF HOME.
LVII.—THE HEAVENLY REST.
LVIII.—LOVE OF COUNTRY.
LIX.—THE CHARMED SERPENT.
LX.—MY ROSARY.
LXI.—THE INDIANS.
LXII.—INDIAN NAMES.
LXIII.—THE FRIARS AND THE KNIGHT.
LXIV.—WHERE THERE’S A WILL THERE’S A WAY.
LXV.—NOW, TO-DAY.
LXVI.—PATRIOTISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
LXVII.—BEST KIND OF REVENGE.
LXVIII—QUEEN ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY.
LXIX.—WILLIAM TELL.
LXX.—THE PRESUMPTION OF YOUTH.
LXXI.—MARY MAGDALEN.
LXXII.—THE WEXFORD MASSACRE.
LXXIII.—A PICTURE OF HUMAN LIFE.
LXXIV.—THE DOUBTING HEART.
LXXV.—ON THE WASTE OF TIME.
LXXVI.—THE REAPER, DEATH.
LXXVII.—DIALOGUE WITH THE GOUT.
LXXVIII.—THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS.
LXXIX.—EDWARD THE CONFESSOR.
LXXX.—THE COMING OF WINTER.
LXXXI.—THE SISTER OF CHARITY.
LXXXII.—WASHINGTON AND BONAPARTE COMPARED.
LXXXIII.—CHARACTER OF FRANKLIN.
LXXXIV.—THE LAST MINSTREL.
LXXXV.—THE MINSTREL BOY.
LXXXVI.—ARMY HYMN.
LXXXVII.—THE ROMAN PONTIFFS.
LXXXVIII.—LABOR AND GENIUS
LXXXIX.—THE DYING GIRL.
XC.—THE ANGELUS BELL.
XCI.—A CURTAIN LECTURE OF MRS. CAUDLE.
XCII.—THE SONG OF THE SHIRT.
XCIII.—BERNARDO DEL CARPIO.
XCIV.—GOD GAVE TO HIS CHURCH CHARITY.
XCV.—UNION AND LIBERTY.
XCVI.—GEORGE WASHINGTON.
XCVII.—CONDUCT OF LA FAYETTE IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
XCVIII.—PAUL REVERE’S RIDE.
XCIX.—SIR THOMAS MOORE.
C.—THE BATTLE FIELD.
CI.—THE RELIGION OF CATHOLICS.
CII.—A BIRTH-DAY OFFERING.
CIII.—SPEECH OF LOGAN, CHIEF OF THE MINGOES.
CIV.—GOD IS EVERY WHERE.
CV.—CHARACTER OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY.
CVI.—ADVICE TO A YOUNG CRITIC.
CVII.—MARIE ANTOINETTE.
CVIII.—ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD.
CIX.—THE VOLUNTARY CONFESSION OF SIN.
