McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
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About This Book
Since 1836, children have been delighted by these volumes filled with exotic adventures, exciting stories, beautiful poems, and funny fables. The Fourth Eclectic Reader includes "Try, Try Again," "Robinson Crusoe's House," and "The Wreck of the Hesperus."
Chapters (103)
- ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES.
- INTRODUCTORY MATTER. SUBJECT. PAGE
- PUNCTUATION MARKS. (7)
- ARTICULATION. (9)
- VOCALS.
- TABLE.
- SUBVOCALS AND ASPIRATES.
- COGNATE SOUNDS.
- TABLE OF SUBSTITUTES.
- VOCALS.
- SUB VOCALS.
- ASPIRATES.
- SUBVOCALS COMBINED.
- EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION.
- A
- E
- I
- O
- U
- H
- R
- SENTENCES FOR PRACTICE
- ACCENT.
- INFLECTION.
- MCGUFFEY'S FOURTH READER.
- I. PERSEVERANCE. (25)
- II. TRY, TRY AGAIN. (28)
- III. WHY THE SEA IS SALT. (29) A FAIRY TALE.
- V. POPPING CORN. (34)
- VI. SMILES. (35)
- VII. LAZY NED. (38)
- VIII. THE MONKEY. (39)
- IX. MEDDLESOME MATTY. (42)
- X. THE GOOD SON. (44)
- XI. TO-MORROW. (45)
- XII. WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY. (47)
- XIII. PICCOLA. (48)
- XIV. TRUE MANLINESS. (50)
- XVI. THE BROWN THRUSH. (54)
- XVII. A SHIP IN A STORM. (55)
- XVIII. THE SAILOR'S CONSOLATION. (58)
- XX. FREAKS OF THE FROST. (63)
- XXI. WASTE NOT, WANT NOT. (64)
- XXIII. THE LION. (69)
- XXIV. STRAWBERRIES. (71)
- XVV. HARRY'S RICHES. (74)
- XXVI. IN TIME'S SWING. (77)
- XXVII. HARRY AND HIS DOG. (79)
- XXIX. THE EAGLE. (84)
- XXX. THE OLD EAGLE TREE. (86)
- XXXII. CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES. (89)
- XXXIII. THE NOBLEST REVENGE. (94)
- XXXIV. EVENING HYMN. (97)
- XXXVI. THE CHILD'S WORLD. (103)
- XXXVII. SUSIE'S COMPOSITION. (104)
- XXXVIII. THE SUMMER SHOWER. (109)
- XXXIX. CONSEQUENCES OF IDLENESS. (110)
- XL. ADVANTAGES OF INDUSTRY. (113)
- XLI. THE FOUNTAIN. (116)
- XLII. COFFEE. (117)
- XLIII. THE WINTER KING. (120)
- XLIV. THE NETTLE. (121)
- XLV. THE TEMPEST. (125)
- XLVI. THE CREATOR. (126)
- XLVII. THE HORSE. (128)
- XLVIII. EMULATION. (132)
- L. THE RIGHT WAY. (136)
- LI. THE GOLDEN RULE. (139)
- LIII. ROBINSON CRUSOE'S HOUSE. (144)
- LIV. ROBINSON CRUSOE'S DRESS. (147)
- LV. SOMEBODY'S DARLING. (150)
- LVI. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. (151)
- LVIII. A CHINESE STORY. (156)
- LXX. THE WAY TO BE HAPPY. (159)
- LX. THE GIRAFFE, OR CAMELOPARD. (162)
- LXI. THE LOST CHILD. (165)
- LXIII. THE PET FAWN. (172)
- LXIV. ANNIE'S DREAM. (175)
- LXV. MY GHOST. (178)
- LXVI. THE ELEPHANT. (180)
- LXVII. DARE TO DO RIGHT. (183)
- LXIX. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. (190)
- LXX. ANECDOTES OF BIRDS. (193)
- LXXI. THE RAINBOW PILGRIMAGE. (197)
- LXXII. THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET. (202)
- LXXIII. THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. (204)
- LXXV. KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS. (211)
- LXXVI. RIVERMOUTH THEATER. (213)
- LXXVII. ALFRED THE GREAT. (217)
- LXXVII. LIVING ON A FARM. (220)
- LXXIX. HUGH IDLE AND MR. TOIL. (221)
- LXXXI. BURNING THE FALLOW. (227)
- LXXXII. THE DYING SOLDIERS. (230)
- LXXXIII. THE ATTACK ON NYMWEGEN. (233)
- LXXXIV. THE SEASONS. (237)
- II. SUMMER.
- III. AUTUMN.
- IV. WINTER.
- LXXXV. BRANDYWINE FORD. (239)
- LXXXVII. THE BEST CAPITAL (245)
- LXXXVIII. THE INCHCAPE ROCK.
- LXXXIX. MY MOTHER'S GRAVE. (253)
- XC. A MOTHER'S GIFT-THE BIBLE. (255)
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