ENGLISH READER:

OR,

PIECES IN PROSE AND POETRY,

SELECTED FROM THE BEST WRITERS.

Designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and
effect; to improve their language and sentiments; and
to inculcate some of the most important prin-
ciples of piety and virtue.

WITH A FEW PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRINCI
PLES OF GOOD READING.

IMPROVED BY THE ADDITION OF A

CONCORDANT AND SYNONYMISING VOCABULARY,

Consisting of about fifteen hundred of the most important words
contained in this work.

The words are arranged in columns and placed over the
sections respectively, from which they are selected ;

AND ARE

DIVIDED, DEFINED, AND PRONOUNCED ACCORD.
ING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF

JOHN WALKER.

The words in the Vocabulary and their correspondent words in
the sections, are numbered with figures of reference.
WALKER'S PRONOUNCING KEY, WHICH GOVERNS THE VO-
CABULARY, IS PREFIXED TO THIS WORK.

Words can have no definitive idea attached to them when by themselves
is the situation and tract in a sentence which determines their precise mean-
g. Dr. Johnson.

BY JEREMIAH GOODRICH.

ALBANY :

PUBLISHED AND SOLD WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BYS SHAW,
Proprietor of the copy right.