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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... express the high gratification it has afforded me , not only as a work admirably adapted to the purpose for which it seems specially to have been designed , a text - book in rhetoric for the use of our common schools , but also as a ...
... express the high gratification it has afforded me , not only as a work admirably adapted to the purpose for which it seems specially to have been designed , a text - book in rhetoric for the use of our common schools , but also as a ...
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... express their thoughts upon paper with as much ease , and beauty , and force , as they do with the or- gans of speech . I would most cheerfully recommend the work to teachers , and all others interested in the welfare of schools , as ...
... express their thoughts upon paper with as much ease , and beauty , and force , as they do with the or- gans of speech . I would most cheerfully recommend the work to teachers , and all others interested in the welfare of schools , as ...
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... express his conviction that the labors of teachers in all our schools are di rected too exclusively to the securing of correct habits in speak- ing and reading the language ; and that altogether too limited an amount of time and share ...
... express his conviction that the labors of teachers in all our schools are di rected too exclusively to the securing of correct habits in speak- ing and reading the language ; and that altogether too limited an amount of time and share ...
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... express on paper the ideas we are about to communicate . Many things that appear tolerably well when addressed to the ear , can not escape condemnation , perhaps ridicule , when submit- ted to the eye . The writing , then , of the ...
... express on paper the ideas we are about to communicate . Many things that appear tolerably well when addressed to the ear , can not escape condemnation , perhaps ridicule , when submit- ted to the eye . The writing , then , of the ...
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... , and to keep apart such as have no mutual dependance . The same words , by means of different modes of punctu ation , may be made to express two meanings exactly PART I. ] 19 PUNCTUATION . Spelling, how best learned PUNCTUATION.
... , and to keep apart such as have no mutual dependance . The same words , by means of different modes of punctu ation , may be made to express two meanings exactly PART I. ] 19 PUNCTUATION . Spelling, how best learned PUNCTUATION.
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