THE

AMERICAN READER:

OR

ELEGANT SELECTIONS

IN

PROSE AND POETRY.

DESIGNED FOR

THE IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH IN THE ART OF
READING AND SPEAKING WITH PROPRIETY
AND BEAUTY, AND FOR THE CULTIVA-
TION OF A CORRECT MORAL TASTE:

PARTICULARLY

FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS.

BY ASA LYMAN, A.M.

"Train up a child in the way he should go."

"Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclin'd."

SOLOMON.

POPE.

PORTLAND: (Maine).

PUBLISHED BY LYMAN, HALL, & CO.
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J. M'Kown, Printer-1810.