Excerpt from Cobb's Juvenile Reader No. 3: Containing Interesting, Historical, Moral, and Instructive Reading Lessons, Composed of Words of a Greater Number of Syllables Than the Lessons in Nos. I, and II Had the art of writing a sufficient number of marks and s' s, ' to point out the variety of tones and cadences, the art of res ing with propriety at sight, might be rendered as easy and as certain, as singing at s' ht. But as the art of writing will probably never admit suc a change, it is essential to point out how the art of reading may be improved, while that of writing continues in its present state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.