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Catholic National Reader: Book Six

by Rt. Rev. Richard Gilmour Author

(From Amazon): This book is filled with many Catholic stories for children of all ages. Catholic authors are well represented in the book. You will find beautiful essays, extracts of various kinds, including poetry and other dramatic selections. Also included are phonics, accents,caligraphy, language exercises, quizzes, illustrations, etc. Great stories, great pictures, great book! Sewn, cloth hardcover, gold embossing.To present the best of both secular and Catholic authors, writing on the most interesting and edifying of topics, students will be reading selections from the new Lepanto Press reprint of the Catholic National Reader #6, an anthology which contains many beautiful essays and extracts of various kinds, including that highest of literature--poetry-- as well as oratorical and dramatic selections

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Resource Type: Book
ISBN: B003C2DCBW
Print Status: In Print
Lessons: 167
Pages: 482
Suggested Grades: 6th - 8th
Publisher: Lepanto Press
Copyright: 2002

Lessons

Preface
Introduction
1 Stella Matutina
2 Our Place and Our Work
3 About Books and How to Read Them
4 The Camalodoli
5 A Legend of Bregenz
6 Legend of Daniel the Anchorite
7 The Tidal-Bore of the Tsien-Tang
8 The Fountain
9 Prayer
10 Life Compared to a River
11 The Morning
12 The Mocking Bird
13 Mending the Pump
14 The Formation of the Earliest States
15 The Judgment of St. Cecilia
16 Where There is Much Counsel There is Wisdom
17 A Chinese Story
18 Industry and Application
19 An Old Continental
20 The Deserted Village
21 A Father's Advice
22 King Solomon and the Bees
23 The Sky
24 Reminiscences of Franklin
25 Man's Dependance on Creatures
26 Oh, How the Thought of God Attracts!
27 Saint Sebastian
28 Saint Sebastian- Concluded
29 The Importance of Literature
30 Horatius at the Bridge
31 Horatius at the Bridge- Continued
32 Tom Pinch's Journey in a Stage-coach
33 The Early Ages of the Church
34 The Legend of the Crossbill
35 Autumn
36 The Old Man's Motto
37 The Last Martyr of the Coliseum
38 What is Prayer?
39 Mr. Gregsbury
40 Battle of Hastings (1066)
41 Caractacus
42 A Blow for Liberty
43 Decisive Integrity
44 The Capture of Jerusalem (1099)
45 Roc'erick the Goth in Battle
46 Civilized Life
47 The Dial and the Sun
48 The Charity of the Monks
49 Macarius the Monk
50 The Passage of the Potomac Through the Blue Ridge
51 St. Thomas of Aquino in the School of Albertus Magnus
52 The Philosopher's Scales
53 Saint Bernard
54 The Fall of Constantinople (1453)
55 Destruction of Sennacherib's Army
56 Vindication from Treason
57 The Exile of Erin
58 The Appeal of Lady Asgill/Washington's Letter to to Captain Asgill
59 Song of Marion's Men
60 Success the Reward of Merit
61 Hamlet to the Players
62 Joan of Arc
63 The Surrender of Granada (1492)
64 Hernando Cortes
65 Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell
66 Land and Sea Breezes
67 Confessions of a Bashful Man
68 Claribel's Prayer
69 Sentence of Sir Thomas More
70 Lead Thou the Way
71 Rome
72 La Trinita Dei Pellegrini
73 Daisies
74 The Music of Nature
75 The Fall of Rhodes
76 Edinburgh After Flodden
77 The Defense of Malta
78 The Goat and the Swing
79 The School of Difficulty
80 Character of the Irish Peasantry
81 Gougaune Barra
82 The Civilizing Influence of the Church During the Middle Ages
83 Mode of Life Among the Japanese
84 The Charcoal Man
85 Dogberry's Charge to the Watch
86 Return of British Fugitives Advocated
87 Hotspur's Description of a Fop
88 St. Pius V and the Battle of Lepanto (1571)
89 The Song of the Forge
90 The Cradle of Religious Liberty
91 The Testament of Jesus Christ
92 The Leper
93 Operatives
94 Saint Charles Borromeo
95 The Gift of Tritemius
96 The Raising of the Obelisk
97 An English Summer
98 The Blind Men and the Elephant
99 Influence of the Gulf Stream upon Climate
100 Washington a Model for the Formation of Character
101 Gen. Washington to Col. Lewis Nicola
102 The Inchcape Rock
103 Honest Study
104 The Fisherman
105 The Origin of Roast Pig
106 A Bill of Fare for a Camp Dinner
107 Richelieu's Defense
108 Recollections of Childhood- A First Sacrifice
109 Daniel Webster
110 The Young American
111 The Siege of Vienna (1683)
112 Early Jesuit Marquette
113 Reception of Marquette
114 The System of Compensation in Nature
115 The American Sailor
116 An April Day
117 The Origin of the Irish Brigade (1691)
118 Fontenoy
119 Influence of Christianity on Civilization
120 Venice
121 Venice
122 Mr. Baptiste
123 Light
124 Light, the King of Colors
125 The War of La Vendée
126 The War of Vendée- Concluded
127 Rienzi to the Romans
128 Our Sundays in the French Revolution (1793)
129 Universality of the Church
130 The Ice-Flower on MOnt Cenis
131 Description of a Bad Cold
132 The Employment of Time
133 Old Christoval's Advice
134 The Revolution of 1793
135 Napoleon at Fontainebleau (1814)
136 The Song of the Cossack
137 God Ruleth the Nations
138 The Emperor's Bird's-Nest
139 Daniel O'Connell
140 Bond of the Union Between North and South
141 The Ivy Green
142 A Wind Flurry
143 Andrew Jackson
144 Paul Revere's Ride
145 Party Spirit and Good Government
146 Mode of Making a Doctor of Law
147 Ode to my Infant Son
148 Two Views of Rome
149 The Immutability of the Chruch
150 The Legend Beautiful
151 Temptations of the Young
152 The Constitution
153 The American Flag
154 Old English and Norman-French
155 Wonders of the English Language
156 William Tell
157 A Good Daughter
158 The Pilot
159 The Pilot- Concluded
160 Hervé Riel
161 Nationalk Dependence on God
162 The Rock of Saint Peter
163 The Church the Champion of Truth
164 What America Owes to the Church
165 King René's Daughter

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