Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples. For the Use of Common Schools and Academies. Including, Also, a Succinct History of the English Language, and of British and American Literature from the Earliest to the Present Times |
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... Composition and Rhetoric . He has prepared a work from those of Reid and Connel , with numerous emendations and additions from his own pen , and we have no doubt , from a general examination of its con- tents , that it is deserving of ...
... Composition and Rhetoric . He has prepared a work from those of Reid and Connel , with numerous emendations and additions from his own pen , and we have no doubt , from a general examination of its con- tents , that it is deserving of ...
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... composition . It is adapted to schools of every grade , the primary as well as the higher ; and it aims to teach by example and illustration . The compiler has embraced in a plain , judicious arrangement , the whole method of expressing ...
... composition . It is adapted to schools of every grade , the primary as well as the higher ; and it aims to teach by example and illustration . The compiler has embraced in a plain , judicious arrangement , the whole method of expressing ...
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... composition Exer- cises , " and in as great need , therefore , of those principles as those of gram- mar ; but , instead of their being thus furnished him by the text - books in use , either he must wait until , when disciplined by ...
... composition Exer- cises , " and in as great need , therefore , of those principles as those of gram- mar ; but , instead of their being thus furnished him by the text - books in use , either he must wait until , when disciplined by ...
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... composition in our common schools , and the want of a proper text - book upon this essential branch of education . Hundreds graduate from our common schools with no well - defined ideas of the construction of our language . I have just ...
... composition in our common schools , and the want of a proper text - book upon this essential branch of education . Hundreds graduate from our common schools with no well - defined ideas of the construction of our language . I have just ...
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... in Writing IV . Scarcity of Books in former Times Page • 17 19 19 22 23 • 24 24 • 25 25 26 • តត តត តត តត 27 27 28 29 29 30 30 34 34 35 35 36 36 36 58895 37 38 39 40 CHAP . V. Composition VI . Genius VII . Taste A 2.
... in Writing IV . Scarcity of Books in former Times Page • 17 19 19 22 23 • 24 24 • 25 25 26 • តត តត តត តត 27 27 28 29 29 30 30 34 34 35 35 36 36 36 58895 37 38 39 40 CHAP . V. Composition VI . Genius VII . Taste A 2.
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