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THE

AMERICAN PRECEPTOR

IMPROVED;

BEING

A NEW SELECTION OF LESSONS

FOR

READING AND SPEAKING.

DESIGNED

FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS.

BY CALEB BINGHAM, A. M.
AUTHOR OF THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR, CHILD's COMPANION, &c.

TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO—”

SIXTY-EIGHTH (EIGHTH IMPROVED) EDITION.

Boston:

PUBLISHED BY J. H. A. FROST.

1829.

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BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eighth day of October, A. D. 1829, in the fiftyfourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, John H. A. Frost, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor in the words following, to wit:-The American Preceptor Improved; being a new Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking. Designed for the Use of Schools. By Caleb Bingham, A. M. Author of the Columbian Orator, Child's Companion, &c. "Train up a child in the way he should go-" Sixty-eighth (eighth improved) edition.

In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;" and also to an act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to an act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

JNO. W. DAVIS,{

Clerk of the District of Massachusetts

PREFACE TO THE FIRST STEREOTYPE EDITION.

THE sale of nearly a million copies of the American Preceptor, since its first publication, is the best proof of its popularity; and the continued demand for it, notwithstanding the numerous compilations of the same description, which have risen in competition with it, is no inconsiderable proof of its excellence.

A new edition is called for, and the proprietor has been at the trouble and expense of revising the whole book, adapting the orthography and pronunciation to Walker's rules, and, what is of no little consequence, fixing its correctness by beautifully stereotyping the work.

WM. B. FOWLE.

STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

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