THE AMERICAN PRECEPTOR IMPROVED: BEING A NEW SELECTION OF LESSONS FOR READING AND SPEAKING. DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLŚ.. BY CALEB BINGHAM, A. М. 0. "Train up a child in the way he should go-" SIXTY-SIXTH (SIXTH IMPROVED) EDITION. ROCHESTER, N. Y. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY EVERARD PECK. UL. S. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS-to wit: District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the thirtieth day of August, A. D. 1819, in the forty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, C. BINGHAM & Co. of the said district, have deposited in this offiee the title of a book the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit:-"The American Preceptor Improved: being a new Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking. Designed for the use of Schools. By Caleb Bingham, A. M. Author of the Columbian Orator, Child's Companion, &c. "Train up a child in the way he should go." Sixtyfirst (first improved) edition" In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an Act, entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching Historical and other Prints." J. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. Parable against Religious Persecution. Ingenious Villany finally punished. The child trained up for the gallows. Sketch of Jerusalem and Palestine. Of Queen Mary and the Martyrs. Sketch of the Life of William Penn. Sketch of the Life of Fernando Cortez. Dialogue between Fernando Cortez and William Penn. True Patriotism displayed at the Siege of Calais. The Unfortunate Philanthropist, |