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  • A Practical Guide to Composition: with progressive exercises in prose and poetry; embellished with cuts

    Document thumbnail: A Practical Guide to Composition: with progressive exercises in prose and poetry; embellished with cuts
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    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1838 printing of the 1838 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Principal of Green Street Seminary and the author of other books. A collection of composition exercises consisting of stories to be analyzed, descriptions, skeletons of letters, analysis of poetry and scripture, general subjects, discussions, poetical exercises, an epitome of rhetoric, an a list of subjects for compositions. The method proposed is in opposition to teaching children in language they do not understand. It emphasizes given children clear conceptions of things before providing them with those things' names. The text includes some pictorial illustrations. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Morley, Charles
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/21/2019
    Date Created:
    1838
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • A Practical Guide to Composition: with progressive exercises in prose and poetry; embellished with cuts

    Document thumbnail: A Practical Guide to Composition: with progressive exercises in prose and poetry; embellished with cuts
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1939 printing of the 1838 copyrighted text. This later printing contains additional text and illustrations, despite the same copyright year as the prior edition. The author is credited as Principal of Green Street Seminary and the author of other books. A collection of composition exercises consisting of stories to be analyzed, descriptions, skeletons of letters, analysis of poetry and scripture, general subjects, discussions, poetical exercises, an epitome of rhetoric, an a list of subjects for compositions. The method proposed is in opposition to teaching children in language they do not understand. It emphasizes given children clear conceptions of things before providing them with those things' names. The text includes some pictorial illustrations. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Morley, Charles
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/21/2019
    Date Created:
    1839
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0