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EBOOK LONDON READING BOOK ***


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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON READING BOOK


LONDON:
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE
OF
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS,
198, STRAND.
1851.
THIRD EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
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[Illustration: PRINCE ALBERT IN HIS ROBES AS CHANCELLOR OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.]
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INTRODUCTION.
[Illustration: INTRODUCTION.]
To read and speak with elegance and ease,
Are arts polite that never fail to please;
Yet in those arts how very few excel!
Ten thousand men may read--not one read well.
Though all mankind are speakers in a sense,
How few can soar to heights of eloquence!
The sweet melodious singer trills her lays,
And listening crowds go frantic in her praise;
But he who reads or speaks with feeling true,
Charms and delights, instructs, and moves us too.
Browne.

To deprive Instruction of the terrors with which the young but too often
regard it, and strew flowers upon the pathways that lead to Knowledge,
is to confer a benefit upon all who are interested in the cause of
Education, either as Teachers or Pupils.
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