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  • Kerl's Language Lessons: an elementary text-book of English grammar

    Document thumbnail: Kerl's Language Lessons: an elementary text-book of English grammar
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    Description/Abstract:
    1878 copyrighted text. A grammar textbook with chapters on the parts of speech and kinds of sentences. It also includes models for notes and letters and exercises.The Schultz Archive copy contains the editor's preface, the index, the first fifty-seven pages, and pages 186 – 191 on exercises in false syntax.
    Creator/Author:
    Kerl, Simon and Perkins, S. M. (editor)
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/29/2020
    Date Created:
    1878
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Elements of Rhetorical and Composition: A Text-Book for Schools and Colleges

    Document thumbnail: The Elements of Rhetorical and Composition: A Text-Book for Schools and Colleges
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    Description/Abstract:
    New edition copyrighted 1884 of the 1878 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Doctor of Laws of English, as the President of the University of Lewisburg, and as author of The Science of Rhetoric. A compendium of rules for guidance in the art of writing. The prefaces argues that learners should first be assisted in finding a subject of thought, and then be shown how to accumlate, arrange, and express the ideas connected with the theme. Chapter one, Invention, contains sections on choice of subject, accumulation of materials, and arrangement of materials. Chapter two, Style, contains sections on diction (purity propriety, precision), sentences (concord, clearness, unity, energy, harmony), paragraphs, figures, and variation of expression. Chapter three, Punctuation and Capitals, covers grammatical points, rhetorical points, printer's marks, capital letters, and the correction of proofs. Chapter four, Criticism, covers taste and pleasure of taste. Chapter five, Special Forms of Composition, covers descriptions, narratives, letters, orations, and poems. The exercises includes sections for the first three chapters. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Hill, David Jayne, 1850-1932
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/19/2019
    Date Created:
    1878
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Hart's Elementary Grammar

    Document thumbnail: Hart's Elementary Grammar
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    Description/Abstract:
    1878 printing of 1878 copyrighted text. Hart is credited with a doctorate in the laws of English as the Late Professor of Rhetoric and of the English Language and Literature in the College of New Jersey, formerly Principal of the New Jersey State Normal School, and author of a series of text-books on the English language. Based on the author's larger Grammar, the text selects portions of that work which are elementary. The text is written for text-book learners, striving for clearness, differentiating by level of importance, providing concise rules and definitions for memorization, and supplying practical examples for every rule and definition. The book has cut the section on prosody, only including orthography, etymology, and syntax. There are also sections of review exercises, exercises in correction of false syntax, and selections for parsing. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the full 128 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Hart, John S. (John Seely), 1810-1877
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/24/2020
    Date Created:
    1878
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0