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LAST EDITION.

A Defire to render this Book fingularly useful, and to deferve a

continuance of that approbation with which it has been already received, has induced the Editor to enlarge and improve it in the prefent, as well as in every preceding edition.

To the first book a great variety of moral and religious extracts has been added, with a defign to furnish a falutary employment for fchools and families on a day which affords peculiar leifure. In the fubfequent books have been inferted Orations, Characters, entertaining Essays on men and manners, pleafing passages on Natural History, a collection of old Proverbs, and other pieces, conducive to the prime purpose of uniting the ufeful with the agreeable.

The volume thus improved, together with the enlarged edition of ELEGANT EXTRACTS IN VERSE, will, it is hoped, be bigbly agreeable to young perfons in their vacant hours, as well as ufeful to them in the claffes of a school, and under the tuition of a preceptor.

As the book unavoidably became large by fucceffive additions, it was judged proper to infert a new Title Page and ornamental Defign, nearly in the middle, that it may be optional to the purchaser to bind it either in one, or in two volumes, as may beft anfwer his own ideas of convenience.