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STEJOTYPED BY T. H. CARTER & CO. BOSTON.

KEENE. N. H.

J. PRENTISS.

1830.

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HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
047*172

DISTRICT OF VERMONT.....TO WIT.

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the thirteenth day of June, in the forty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, JOSHUA LEAVITT, of the said District, Esquire, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:-"EASY LESSONS IN READING; FOR THE USE OF THE YOUNGER CLASSES IN COMMON SCHOOLS. By JOSHUA LEAVITT.”—In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."

JESSE GOVE,

Clerk of the District of Vermont.

A true copy of record, examined and scaled by

J. GØVE, Clerk.

PREFACE.

THE compiler has been excited to the present undertaking, by the representations of several parents and instructers, that there was no reading book to be found at the bookstores, suitable for young children, to be used intermediately, between the Spelling-Book and the English or American Reader. The Testament is much used for this purpose; and, on many accounts, it is admirably adapted for a reading book in schools. The simplicity and plainness of its language, the interesting character of its narratives, its divine doctrines and precepts, that come home to the heart of every reader, all conspire to make it a useful book to be read in schools. But it is respectfully submitted to the experience of judicious teachers, whether the peculiar structure of scripture language is not calculated to create a tone? I would by no means exclude the testament from our schools, but am persuaded it would be better to place a book in the hands of learners, written in a more familiar style, until they have formed a habit of correct reading.

Such a work, I flatter myself, will be found in the following pages. The selections will be found to contain many salutary precepts and instructive examples, for a life of piety and morality, of activity and usefulness; but the main object in view was, to scicct such

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