Pierpont's Introduction; Introduction to the National Reader: A Selection of Easy Lessons, Designed to Fill the Same Place in the Common Schools of the United States That Is Held by Murray's Introduction, and the Compilations of Guy, Mylius, and Pinnock,

Excerpt from Pierpont's Introduction; Introduction to the National Reader: A Selection of Easy Lessons, Designed to Fill the Same Place in the Common Schools of the United States That Is Held by Murray's Introduction, and the Compilations of Guy, Mylius, and Pinnock, in Those of Great Britain

I ought, in justice to myself and another, to advise the public, that in the present selection, I have been aided by the taste and judgment of a gentleman, who is, practically and professionally, a teacher of the young - to whom they are already indebted for several interesting and useful works for their improvement; and who is entitled to a part of the credit for whatever the book contains that is good. For all that is bad, as it goes under my name, I am responsible.

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