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appeared before in books of this character. A very small number of old favorites have been admitted, which from their sterling merits seemed to demand this recognition.

While care has been taken to bring new pieces together, they have been selected not for this quality alone, but also for their real merits, the finest efforts of oratory and the varied enunciation of true poetry are here collated, with the hope that their study and recitation will instruct and refine the student's heart.

Another aim has been to present short pieces: the time allotted to the individual speaker in seminaries where there are many students, is but small; and, besides, the complaint of those who have many studies to carry on connectedly, is, that the pieces ordinarily selected are too long to be easily learned during the pressure of other lessons.

On account of the brevity of the extracts, and the small but clear type in which the book is printed, a greater number of pieces, and a more numerous collection of authors, have been presented than in any similar book. Care has been taken to do justice to the great minds of all parts of our country, and as far as possible, by avoiding all sectional and sectarian bias, to fit the book for the great popular wants of education throughout the Union.

With the earnest hope that he has succeeded in his honest attempt, the compiler places his book in the hands of the instructors and students of the United States.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, June 1860.

H. C.

THE present edition of the ACADEMIC SPEAKER has been thoroughly revised, and a few new and beautiful pieces have been substituted for those which the compiler has found, by his use of the book, least adapted to the wants and tastes of his pupils. His thanks are due to the teachers who have introduced the Speaker into their institutions, and who have given their hearty commendations of it.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA,

February 1, 1865.

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Address of Nicias to his Troops,
Common Things Important, .

The Physician's Duty and Responsibility,

The Smithsonian Institute,

The First Predicted Eclipse,

Kepler's Discovery of the Third Law,
The Treaty of Shackamaxon,

The Settlement of Pennsylvania,
Canova's Triumph,

Devotion to Science,

European Names in America,
The Progress of Civilization,
The Pilgrims of New England,
The Value of the Union,
English Opinions of France,
Napoleon's Tomb,

Man's Immortality,.
The Stone Age,

Penn and Lycurgus,

The Spread of Knowledge,

The Heavens Proclaim the Deity,

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