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Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader
Being Selections from the Chief American Writers

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers

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style="margin-left: 2%; margin-right: 2%"> John Winthrop, 1587-1649 10. True Liberty defined. 11. Proposed Treatment of the Indians.

William Byrd, 1674-1744 12. The Ginseng and Snakeroot Plants.

Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790 13. Good Resolutions.—The Croaker. 14. Franklin's Electrical Kite. 15. Motion for Prayers in the Convention. 16. The Ephemeron. An Emblem.

=4.= LATER RELIGIOUS WRITERS AND DIVINES.

John Woolman, 1730-1772 17. Remarks on Slavery and Labor.

John M. Mason, 1770-1829 18. Grandeur of the Bible Society. 19. The Right of the State to Educate.

Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817 20. The Wilderness reclaimed. 21. The Glory of Nature, from God.

  John Henry Hobart, 1775-1830
  22. The Divine Glory in Redemption.

  Lyman Beecher, 1775-1863
  23. The Being of a God.

William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842 24. Character of Napoleon. 25. Grandeur of the prospect of Immortality. 26. The Duty of the Free States.

  Edward Payson, 1783-1827
  27. Natural Religion.

  Joseph S. Buckminster, 1784-1812
  28. Necessity of Regeneration.

  Nathaniel W. Taylor, 1786-1858
  29. Proof of Immortality from the Moral Nature of Man.

  Edward Hitchcock, 1793-1864
  30. Geological Proof of Divine Benevolence.

  John P. Durbin, 1800-
  31. First Sight of Mount Sinai.

Leonard Bacon, 1802- 32. The Day approaching. 33. The Benefits of Capital.

  James W. Alexander, 1804-1859
  34. The Church a Temple.

  Martin J. Spaulding, 1810-1872
  35. Trials of the Pioneer Catholic Clergy in the West.

  James H. Thornwell, 1811-1862
  36. Evil tendencies of an act of Sin.

  Charles P. McIlvaine, 1799-1873
  37. Attestations of the Resurrection.

George W. Bethune, 1805-1862 38. Aspirations towards Heaven. 39. The Prospects of Art in the United States.

William R. Williams, 1804- 40. Lead us not into Temptation.

George B. Cheever, 1807- 41. Sin distorts the judgment. 42. Mont Blanc.

Horace Bushnell, 1804- 43. Unconscious Influence. 44. The True Rest of the Christian.

  Alfred T. Bledsoe, about 1809-
  45. Moral Evil consistent with the Holiness of God.

  Richard Fuller, 1808-
  46. The Desire of all Nations shall come. Haggai ii. 7.

Henry Ward Beecher, 1813- 47. A Picture in a College at Oxford. 48. Frost on the Window. 49. Nature designed for our enjoyment. 50. Life in the Country. 51. The Conception of Angels, Superhuman.

  John McClintock, 1814-1870
  52. The Christian the only true Lover of Nature.

  Noah Porter, 1811-
  53. Science magnifies God.

  William H. Milburn, 1823-
  54. The Pioneer Preachers of the Mississippi Valley.

=5.= ORATORS, AND LEGAL AND POLITICAL WRITERS, OF THE ERA OF THE REVOLUTION.

  John Dickinson, 1732-1808
  55. Aspect of the War in May, 1779.

  John Adams, 1735-1826
  56. Character of James Otis.
  57. The Requisites of a Good Government.

Patrick Henry, 1736-1799 58. The Necessity of the War. 59. The Constitution should be amended before Adoption.

John Rutledge, 1735-1826 60. An Independent Judiciary the Safeguard of Liberty.

Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826 61. Essential Principles of American Government. 62. Character of Washington. 63. Geographical Limits of the Elephant and the Mammoth. 64. The Unhappy Effects of Slavery.

  John Jay, 1745-1829
  65. An Appeal to Arms.

=6.= ORATORS, AND LEGAL AND POLITICAL WRITERS, OF THE ERA SUBSEQUENT TO THE REVOLUTION.

Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804 66. Nature of the Federal Debt. 67. The French Revolution.

  Fisher Ames, 1758-1808
  68. Obligation of National Good Faith.

  Gouverneur Morris, 1752-1816
  69. Qualifications of a Minister of Foreign Affairs.

  William Pinkney, 1764-1820
  70. Responsibility for Slavery.
  71. American Belligerent Rights.

  James Madison, 1751-1836
  72. Value of a Record of the Debates on the Federal Constitution.
  73. Inscription for a Statue of Washington.

John Randolph, 1773-1832 74. Change is not Reform. 75. The Error of Decayed Families.

  James Kent, 1763-1847
  76. Law of the States.

  Edward Livingston, 1764-1836
  77. The Proper Office of the Judge.

  John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848
  78. The Right of Petition Universal.
  79. The Administration of Washington.

Henry Clay, 1777-1852 80. Emancipation of the South American States. 81. Dangers of Disunion.

John C. Calhoun, 1782-1850 82. Dangers of an Unlimited Power of Removal from Office. 83. Peculiar merit of our Political System. 84. Concurrent Majorities supersede Force.

  Daniel Webster, 1782-1852
  85. Inestimable Value of the Federal Union;—Extract from the Reply
       to Hayne.
  86. Object of the Bunker Hill Monument.
  87. Benefits of the U.S. Constitution.
  88. Right of changing Allegiance.

Joseph Story, 1779-1845 89. Chief Justice Marshall. 90. Progress of Jurisprudence.

Lewis Cass, 1782-1866 91. Policy of Removing the Indians.

Rufus Choate, 1799-1859 92. Conservative Force of the American Bar. 93. The Age of the Pilgrims the Heroic Period of our History.

  William H. Seward, 1801-1872
  94. Military Services of Lafayette in America.

  Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
  95. Obligation to the Patriot Dead.

Charles Sumner, 1811-1873 96. Prospective Results of the Kansas and Nebraska Bill. 97. Heroic Effort cannot Fail. 98. Our Foreign Relations. 99. Prophetic Voices about America.

Alexander H.

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