. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. ^ struck their flint and steel forthe tiny spark that they coaxed intoa flame. We have passed by the rifle thatreplaces the old flint-lock, the phono-graph, the telephone, the automobile,the typewriter, and the printing-press, the wonder of the age. Oh !you will find new inventions almostlike the Story Without day adds to their numbers, and. Telephone of to-day. Their name is lejxion they all increase our w^ealth, prosperity, and comfort. 5. AMERICAN LITERATURE. For some years after the Revolution, our great men
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. ^ struck their flint and steel forthe tiny spark that they coaxed intoa flame. We have passed by the rifle thatreplaces the old flint-lock, the phono-graph, the telephone, the automobile,the typewriter, and the printing-press, the wonder of the age. Oh !you will find new inventions almostlike the Story Without day adds to their numbers, and. Telephone of to-day. Their name is lejxion they all increase our w^ealth, prosperity, and comfort. 5. AMERICAN LITERATURE. For some years after the Revolution, our great men werebusy with the work of starting the nation on the right track. No one had much time to write stories or poetry. A fewbooks were ^\■ritten, but nearly all of them ^vere on religioussubjects, or about government, because our people thoughtand talked more about such things than of any other matters. The Federalist, written by Hamilton, Jefferson, and Jay,was the best book on government, but Franklin was the mostpopular of all the colonial writers. His Poor IlichardsAlmanac was full of wise sayings on every-day matters suchas the people liked to read. AUTHORS. 269 LESSON.—Every field of literature -was soon covered by our novels, Irvings tales and essays, and the poems and ballads ofBryant, Longfello^w, and Whittier, proved the genius of our writers.
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