Reading
spell. Even ted men
tle or no acquaintance he
Englishe
ancient classics and Bibles, wo all who will
kno efforts anywo become
acquainted hem. I know a woodchopper, of middle age, who
takes a Frenc for news as ,
but to quot;keep ice,quot; h; and
his
o his English.
t as muco
do, and take an Englishe purpose. One who has
just come from reading per English books will
find it? Or suppose he
comes from reading a Greek or Latin classic in the original, whose
praises are familiar even to terate; he will find
nobody at all to speak to, but must keep silence about it. Indeed,
the professor in our colleges, who, if he has
mastered ties of tionally
mastered ties of t and poetry of a Greek poet, and
o impart to t and heroic reader; and as
for tures, or Bibles of mankind, wown
can tell me even titles? Most men do not kno any nation
but ture. A man, any man, will go
considerably out of o pick up a silver dollar; but here are
golden iquity tered, and
whe wise of every succeeding age have assured us of; --
and yet o read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers
and class-books, and tle Reading,quot; and
story-books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our
conversation and thy only
of pygmies and manikins.
I aspire to be acquainted his our Conco