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LITTLE READING,

OR,

EXTRACTS

From some of the Most Approved Authors,

ANCIENT AND MODERN.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

SOME BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES FROM THE EARLIEST

AGES OF THE WORLD TO NEARLY THE PRESENT
TIME. ALSO, EXTENSIVE SCRIPTURE LES-

SONS. BEING THE RESULT OF

TWENTY-TWO YEARS'

APPLICATION.

BY A FRIEND TO GENERAL IMPROVEMENT.

VOL. II.

New-York :

PRINTED BY MAHLON DAY,

NO. 376, PEARL-STREET.

1827.

HARVARD

COLLEGE

Apr 2,1929

LIBRARY

Mrs. Franklin Q. Browns.

MUCH INSTRUCTION, &c.

EXTRACTS

FROM THE FIRST VOLUME

OF

HUNTER'S SACRED BIOGRAPHY.

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VARIOUS methods have been employed, at different periods, and by different persons, to convey useful knowledge to mankind. The knowledge most useful and most important to man, is that of morals and religion. These sciences not only afford the most pleasant and elevating subjects of meditation, but evidently possess a very powerful influence over human happiness, both in the life which now is, and in that which is to come. Vol. i. p. 17.

Let it ever be remembered by all, that every man's life is of importance to himself, to his family, to his friends, to his country, and in the sight of God. They are by no means the best of men, who have made most noise in the world; neither are those actions most deserving of praise, which have obtained the greatest share of fame. Scenes of violence and blood, the workings of ambition, pride, and revenge, compose the annals of men. But piety and purity, temperance and humility, which are little noticed and soon forgotten of the world, are held in everlasting remembrance before God. And happy had it been for many of those whose names and deeds have been transmitted to us with renown, if they had never been born.

One corruption subdued is a victory infinitely more desirable, and more truly honourable, than a triumph gained amidst the confused noise of ten thousand warriors, and as many garments rolled in blood; for

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he that is slow to anger is better than the

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