PUBLISHED BY DIRECTION OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF NATIONAL EDUCATION, SOLD BY R. GROOMBRIDGE, LONDON, AND 1836. PREFACE. THIS FIFTH BOOK OF LESSONS has been compiled as a portion of the plan of progressive Lessons, partially developed in the preceding Books. Its object is to carry forward the Instruction of the more advanced Pupils, into subjects which had been but briefly noticed, or altogether omitted. in the former Numbers of the Series. In this new edition the modern history has been enlarged; a section on Chemistry has been added, together with several Poetical extracts. |