A Mental Museum for the Rising Generation: Comprising, Part I. Familiar Conversations on Natural History and the Universe, Reflections on Providence, Etc.; Part II. Lessons Calculated to Excite a Taste for Reading and Mental Improvement - on Industry, Economy, Preservation of Health, Etc.; Part III. Various Instructive and Entertaining Articles and Poetry ; with an Appendix Containing the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the First Free Circulating Library, Etc. Designed for the Middle Classes of Readers in American Schools and Families. Adapted to American Customs and Manners and Proposed as a Substitute for Foreign Compilations of Reading Lessons

Thomas Desilver, 1829 - 360 頁

Rules and observations for assisting children to read with propriety	ix

Conversations on Natural History Sec 1 Form of the earth its surface springs and rivers	15

The ocean	16

Uses of the ocean	19

The internal structure of the earth minerals	22

Conversation on earths and stones	26

Conversation on the salt mines of Poland	38

Conversation on metals	39

On the folly of extravagance in dress	205

PART THIRD	211

On goodnature the necessity of governing	217

Virtue and happiness preferable to dissipation	227

The farmyard journal	253

Generous Revenge	260

Wise Men	267

The Beaver and the Sloth	273

Conversation on metals continued	47

Vegetables structure and uses of vegetables	54

Conversation on grass and grain	60

Animals	66

Quadrupeds	68

Birds	74

Uses of birds	79

Fishes	82

The Instincts of fishesuses of fishes	87

Conversation on catching whales	92

Conversation on catching codfish and on the salmon leap in Ireland	98

Shell fish	102

Uses of shell fish 21 Reptilesuses of reptiles 22 Insectsuses of insects	104

17	105

22	106

26	107

102	108

Reflections on the Universe Providence	117

Changes of the seasonsday and night 3 Winter in the Polar regions	119

Wonders of the north	121

Thunder storms	123

The mooneclipses 7 The	125

The solar systemthe planets	129

A globe lecture	134

Nature displayed	142

Magnificence of God in his works 117	143

Dialogue on things to be learned	146

Popular education	175

Extracts from the remarks of Lewis Condict	185

Selections from	199

Of Strombolo a Volcano	279

Of Mount Etna a Volcano	287

Earthquake at Bagota in 1827	294

Extracts of a letter from Edward Livingston	302

Warnings c continued	308

Dishonesty punished	313

CHAPTER 2	315

The Birds nest ibid	316

The Hand Post	317

Spring	318

Summer	319

Autumn	320

A Dream	321

On the return of Peace 1815	322

The Cat and the Toad	324

The Young Wrens	325

Detraction	326

On early rising	327

All nature displays the glory and love of the Creator	328

A kind and obliging temper essential to the	329

Simplicity	330

The Shepherd and the Philosopher	331

Ode from the 19th Psalm Spectator SSS 21 Rural pleasures Goldsmith	334

The Hermits way to be happy	335

Lovers of rum	336

APPENDIX Sec 1 Declaration of Independence	337

Constitution of the United States	340

S Constitution of the first tree circulating Library	353

Remarks and correspondence relative to the utility of free Libraries	357

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書名	A Mental Museum for the Rising Generation: Comprising, Part I. Familiar Conversations on Natural History and the Universe, Reflections on Providence, Etc.; Part II. Lessons Calculated to Excite a Taste for Reading and Mental Improvement - on Industry, Economy, Preservation of Health, Etc.; Part ...
作者	Jesse Torrey
出版者	Thomas Desilver, 1829
來源：	紐約市立圖書館
已數位化	2006年10月24日
頁數	360 頁

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