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McGuffey’s Fifth Eclectic Reader

by William Holmes McGuffey

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Selections in Prose and Poetry
  3. 3Diphthongs. Vocal as in — — ———— Oi, Oy Oil, Boy Ou, Ow out,now
  4. 4Subvocals and Aspirates
  5. 5Substitutes — Faults to Be Remedied
  6. 6Examples
  7. 7Series of Words or Members
  8. 8Rising and Falling Inflections
  9. 9Circumflex
  10. 10Monotone
  11. 11IV — Accent
  12. 12V — Emphasis
  13. 13Absolute Emphasis
  14. 14Relative Emphasis
  15. 15Emphatic Phrase
  16. 16VI — Modulation
  17. 17Quantity and Quality
  18. 18VII — Poetic Pauses
  19. 19Exercises
  20. 20III — Hamlet on Seeing the Skull of Yorick
  21. 21IV — Description of a Battle
  22. 22V — Lord Ullin’s Daughter
  23. 23Alphabetical List of Authors — 1 — The Good Reader
  24. 24II — The Bluebell
  25. 25III — The Gentle Hand
  26. 26IV — The Grandfather
  27. 27V — A Boy on a Farm
  28. 28VI — The Singing Lesson
  29. 29VII — Do Not Meddle
  30. 30VIII — Work
  31. 31IX — The Maniac
  32. 32X — Robin Redbreast
  33. 33XI — The Fish I Did N’t Catch
  34. 34XII — It Snows
  35. 35XIII — Respect for the Sabbath Rewarded
  36. 36XIV — The Sands o’ Dee
  37. 37XV — Select Paragraphs
  38. 38XVI — The Corn Song
  39. 39XVII — The Venomous Worm
  40. 40XVIII — The Festal Board
  41. 41XIX — How to Tell Bad News
  42. 42XX — The Battle of Blenheim
  43. 43XXI — “I Pity Them”
  44. 44XXII — An Elegy on Madam Blaize
  45. 45XXIII — King Charles II and William Penn
  46. 46XXIV — What I Live For
  47. 47XXV — The Righteous Never Forsaken
  48. 48XXVI — Abou Ben Adhem
  49. 49XXVII — Lucy Forester
  50. 50XXVIII — The Reaper and the Flowers
  51. 51XXIX — The Town Pump
  52. 52XXX — Good Night
  53. 53XXXI — An Old-Fashioned Girl
  54. 54XXXII — My Mother’s Hands
  55. 55XXXIII — The Discontented Pendulum
  56. 56XXXIV — The Death of the Flowers
  57. 57XXXV — The Thunderstorm
  58. 58XXXVI — April Day
  59. 59XXXVII — The Tea Rose
  60. 60XXXVIII — The Cataract of Lodore
  61. 61XXXIX — The Bobolink
  62. 62XL — Robert of Lincoln
  63. 63XLI — Rebellion in Massachusetts State Prison
  64. 64XLII — Faithless Nelly Gray
  65. 65XLIII — The Generous Russian Peasant
  66. 66XLIV — Forty Years Ago
  67. 67XLV — Mrs. Caudle’s Lecture
  68. 68XLVI — The Village Blacksmith
  69. 69XLVII — The Relief of Lucknow
  70. 70XLVIII — The Snowstorm
  71. 71XLIX — Behind Time
  72. 72L — The Old Sampler
  73. 73Li. the Goodness of God
  74. 74LII — My Mother
  75. 75LIII — The Hour of Prayer
  76. 76LIV — The Will
  77. 77LV — The Nose and the Eyes
  78. 78LVI — An Iceberg
  79. 79LVII — About Quail
  80. 80LVIII — The Blue and the Gray
  81. 81LIX — The Machinist’s Return
  82. 82LX — Make Way for Liberty
  83. 83LXI — The English Skylark
  84. 84LXII — How Sleep the Brave
  85. 85LXIII — The Rainbow
  86. 86LXIV — Supposed Speech of John Adams
  87. 87LXV — The Rising
  88. 88LXVI — Control Your Temper
  89. 89LXVII — William Tell
  90. 90LXVIII — William Tell. (Concluded.)
  91. 91LXIX — The Crazy Engineer
  92. 92LXX — The Heritage
  93. 93LXXI — No Excellence Without Labor
  94. 94LXXII — The Old House Clock
  95. 95LXXIII — The Examination
  96. 96LXXIV — The Isle of Long Ago
  97. 97LXXV — The Boston Massacre
  98. 98LXXVI — Death of the Beautiful
  99. 99LXXVII — Snow Falling
  100. 100LXXVIII — Squeers’s Method
  101. 101LXXIX — The Gift of Empty Hands
  102. 102LXXX — Capturing the Wild Horse
  103. 103LXXXI — Sowing and Reaping
  104. 104LXXXII — Taking Comfort
  105. 105LXXXIII — Calling the Roll
  106. 106LXXXIV — Turtle Soup
  107. 107LXXXV — The Best Kind of Revenge
  108. 108LXXXVI — The Soldier of the Rhine
  109. 109LXXXVII — The Winged Worshipers
  110. 110LXXXVIII. The Peevish Wife
  111. 111LXXXIX — The Rainy Day
  112. 112XC — Break, Break, Break
  113. 113XCI — Transportation and Planting of Seeds
  114. 114XCII — Spring Again
  115. 115XCIII — Religion the Only Basis of Society
  116. 116XCIV — Rock Me to Sleep
  117. 117XCV — Man and the Inferior Animals
  118. 118XCVI — The Blind Men and the Elephant
  119. 119XCVII — A Home Scene
  120. 120XCVIII — The Light of Other Days
  121. 121XCIX — A Chase in the English Channel
  122. 122C — Burial of Sir John Moore
  123. 123CI — Little Victories
  124. 124CII — The Character of a Happy Life
  125. 125CIII — The Art of Discouragement
  126. 126CIV — The Mariner’s Dream
  127. 127CV — The Passenger Pigeon
  128. 128CVI — The Country Life
  129. 129CVII — The Virginians
  130. 130CVIII — Minot’s Ledge
  131. 131CIX — Hamlet
  132. 132CX — Dissertation on Roast Pig
  133. 133CXI — A Pen Picture
  134. 134CXII — The Great Voices
  135. 135CXIII — A Picture of Human Life
  136. 136CXIV — A Summer Longing
  137. 137CXV — Fate
  138. 138CXVI — The Bible the Best of Classics
  139. 139CXVII — My Mother’s Bible

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