Macmillan's Reading Books. Book V

Macmillan's Reading Books. Book V
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Unknown. Macmillan's Reading Books. Book V

PREFACE TO BOOK V

BOOK V

INTRODUCTION

INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON

THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY

THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH

MEN OF ENGLAND

BARBABA S–

A BALLAD

DR. ARNOLD

MARTYRS

A PSALM OF LIFE

BOYHOOD'S WORK

WORK IN THE WORLD

THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR

REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE, NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS

CASTLES IN THE AIR

THE INCHCAPE BELL

THE DEATH OF NELSON

BATTLE OF THE BALTIC

LOCHINVAR

LEARNING TO RIDE

THE CHAMELEON

MOSES AT THE FAIR

A WISH

WHANG THE MILLER

A SEA SONG

ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE.'

AN ESCAPE

RULE BRITANNIA

WATERLOO

IVRY

NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

ANCIENT GREECE

THE TEMPLE OF FAME

LABRADOR

A HAPPY LIFE

MAN'S SERVANTS

VIRTUE

DEATH THE CONQUEROR

GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY

THE PASSIONS

"A WHALE HUNT."

VISION OF BELSHAZZAR

YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND

A SHIPWRECK

A SHIPWRECK

THE HAPPY WARRIOR

THE BLACK PRINCE

THE ASSEMBLY OF URI

LIBERTY

MY WINTER GARDEN

ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES

THE TROSACHS

LOCHIEL'S WARNING

COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND

COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED

ROBBED IN THE DESERT

REST FROM BATTLE

ARISTIDES

THE VENERABLE BEDE

THE DEATH OF ANSELM

THE MURDER OF BECKET

THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH

THE SAXON AND THE GAEL

THE BATTLE OF NASEBY

THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR

THE WINTER EVENING

A HARD WINTER

A PORTENTOUS SUMMER

A THUNDERSTORM

CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT

MUMPS'S HALL

THE PORTEOUS MOB

MAZEPPA

JOSIAH WEDGWOOD

THE CRIMEAN WAR

NATIONAL MORALITY

HYMN TO DIANA

L'ALLEGRO

THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR

THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS

THE VILLAGE

THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA

BATTLE OF ALBUERA

CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

IL PENSEROSO

AFRICAN HOSPITALITY

ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA

A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST

AN ARABIAN TOWN

COURTESY

THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL

VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT

THE DEAD ASS

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Throughout this book, and the next, you will find passages taken from the writings of the best English authors. But the passages are not all equal, nor are they all such as we would call "the best," and the more you read and are able to judge them for yourselves, the better you will be able to see what is the difference between the best and those that are not so good.

By the best authors are meant those who have written most skilfully in prose and verse. Some of these have written in prose, because they wished to tell us something more fully and freely than they could do if they tied themselves to lines of an equal number of syllables, or ending with the same sound, as men do when they write poetry. Others have written in verse, because they wished rather to make us think over and over again about the same thing, and, by doing so, to teach us, gradually, how much we could learn from one thing; if we think sufficiently long and carefully about it; and, besides this, they knew that rhythmical or musical language would keep longest in our memory anything which they wished to remain there; and by being stored up in our mind, would enrich us in all our lives after.

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Footprints could hardly be seen by those sailing over the main.]

In no place in the world has individual character more weight than at a public school. Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil in the society you live in than you ever can have again. Quit yourselves like men, then; speak up, and strike out, if necessary, for whatsoever is true, and manly, and lovely, and of good report; never try to be popular, but only to do your duty, and help others to do theirs, and you may leave the tone of feeling in the school higher than you found it, and so be doing good, which no living soul can measure, to generations of your countrymen yet unborn. For boys follow one another in herds like sheep, for good or evil; they hate thinking, and have rarely any settled principles. Every school, indeed, has its own traditionary standard of right and wrong, which cannot be transgressed with impunity, marking certain things as low and blackguard, and certain others as lawful and right. This standard is ever varying, though it changes only slowly, and little by little; and, subject only to such standard, it is the leading boys for the time being who give the tone to all the rest, and make the school either a noble institution for the training of Christian Englishmen, or a place where a young boy will get more evil than he would if he were turned out to make his way in London streets, or anything between these two extremes.

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