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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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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