117. Religion the Cause of the Settlements of New Eng- land..... 121. Speech of Catiline before the Roman Senate. Croly's Catiline. 346 122. Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul...Addison. 347 132. Extract from a Speech on the British Treaty. FISHER AMES. 376 133. Character of Leverett Saltonstall...STEPHEN C. PHILLIPS. 380 ument, 17th of June, 1825......... DANIEL WEBSTER. 397 140. Devastation of the Carnatic by Hyder Ali.. 146. The Progress of Knowledge.. THE DISTRICT SCHOOL READER. ARTICULATION. A distinct articulation forms the basis of good reading. It should, therefore, receive our first attention. The organs of speech are as susceptible of improvement, and as much strengthened by proper exercise, as the limbs of the body; and if we would secure a perfect enunciation, the voice should be frequently exercised upon the elementary sounds of the language, both simple and combined, and classes of words, containing sounds liable to perversion or suppression, should be forcibly and accurately pronounced. LESSON I. EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION. a: fate, hate, rate, gauge, bait, great, deign; - nation, station, danger, chamber, neighbor; - arraign, abase, convey, delay; — fatalist, patriot, feignedly; occasion, dictator, spectator. The Faculty of Speech. ALEXANDER YOUNG. THE faculty of speech is one of the noblest and most valuable gifts which a bountiful providence has bestowed on us. It is the appropriate endowment of man—that which, more than any other, distinguishes him from the rest of |