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English Grammar Made Pleasant and Practicable: the parts which should be committed to memory being versified and prepared, as musical exercises, for the use of schools and classes; according to a plan of instruction which has been tried in other branches of education with the happiest effects

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Type:: Document
Descripción/Resumen:: A grammar handbook that structures lessons in song.
Creador/Autor:: Wilmer, Lambert A., 1805?-1863
Peticionario:: Russel Durst
Fecha modificada:: 05/23/2016
Fecha de creacion:: 1849
Licencia:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Composition and Rhetoric: By Practice, with exercises, adapted for use in high schools and colleges

Type:: Document
Descripción/Resumen:: 1894 printing of 1890 copyrighted text. Revised and enlarged edition. Author is credited with a B.A. and as editor of Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," Cowper's "Task," etc. Preface (dated 1891) states text addresses lack of texts that ably deal with the theoretical part of composition and offer a sufficient amount of practice. It proceeds on the simple method of laying down a few principles at a time and then illustrating them with a variety of exercises. Chapters cover: the sentence, punctuation, style (diction, formation of sentences, construction of paragraphs), variety of expression, figures of speech, qualities of style (perspicuity, picturesqueness, force, pathos, the ludicrous, the aesthetic), letters, the plan, kinds of discourse, versification, correcting compositions, and proof-reading and marking. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 338 page text.
Creador/Autor:: Williams, William
Peticionario:: Russel Durst
Fecha modificada:: 05/23/2016
Fecha modificada:: 08/16/2020
Fecha de creacion:: 1894
Licencia:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Essentials of English Grammar: A Facsimile Reproduction with an Introduction by Charlotte Downey

Type:: Document
Descripción/Resumen:: 1988 printing of 1877 text, new matter copyrighted 1988. Introduction discusses the publication history of the text, and explicates some of Whitney's insights and innovations. The intro compares Whitney's text to the writings of his contemporaries, such as E. A. F. Maetzner, Samuel Greene, John Ash, Thomas Harvey, and Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg. Whitney's preface states that the pursuit of correctness in writing should be a secondary or subordinate purpose, and is best sought indirectly. It advocates constant use and practice, under never-failing watch and correction. Schultz Archive copy includes Downey's introduction, the original preface, TOC, and the first 23 pages of the text.
Creador/Autor:: Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894
Peticionario:: Russel Durst
Fecha modificada:: 05/23/2016
Fecha modificada:: 08/16/2020
Fecha de creacion:: 1877
Licencia:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Elements of Rhetoric: comprising the substance of the article in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana with Additions, &c.

Type:: Document
Descripción/Resumen:: N/A
Creador/Autor:: Whately, Richard, 1787-1863
Peticionario:: Russel Durst
Fecha modificada:: 05/23/2016
Fecha modificada:: 03/31/2017
Fecha de creacion:: 1843
Licencia:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

First Lessons in English Grammar and Composition

Type:: Document
Descripción/Resumen:: A grammar handbook that features a wide array of exercises to stimulate young minds. Illustrations, letter composition, and other techniques commonly featured.
Creador/Autor:: Welsh, Judson Perry
Peticionario:: Russel Durst
Fecha modificada:: 05/23/2016
Fecha modificada:: 08/14/2020
Fecha de creacion:: 1896
Licencia:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Complete Rhetoric

Type:: Document
Descripción/Resumen:: A handbook focusing on different aspects of expression including methods, forms, aesthetics, and departments.
Creador/Autor:: Welsh, Alfred H. (Alfred Hix), 1850-1889
Peticionario:: Russel Durst
Fecha modificada:: 05/23/2016
Fecha de creacion:: 1896
Licencia:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

English Composition: adapted to the wants of high schools, preparatory schools, and academies

Type:: Document
Descripción/Resumen:: 1896 printing of 1889 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts, (of) Ohio State University, and as the author of several other texts on various subjects. A manual for school work that is a sequel to ordinary grammar textbooks and an introduction to rhetoric. For a composition course that develops critical literary taste, habits of systematic investigation, and the power of expressing a train of thought in appropriate language. Subjects are progressive in arrangement and exercises are graduated. The exercises cover kinds of discourse: descriptive, narrative, and discursive. Paraphrasing, reproduction from memory, classification of thoughts, topical analysis, summarizing, punctuation, letter writing, and versification are also covered. The author credits the influence of Meiklejohn, Dagleish, Armstrong, Hiley, Reid, Monfries, Murison, Brewer, Laurie, Isbister, Leitch, Bardeen, Southworth, and Goddard. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 204 page text.
Creador/Autor:: Welsh, Alfred H. (Alfred Hix), 1850-1889
Peticionario:: Russel Durst
Fecha modificada:: 05/23/2016
Fecha modificada:: 08/14/2020
Fecha de creacion:: 1896
Licencia:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

A Grammar of the English Language

Type:: Document
Descripción/Resumen:: A grammar handbook that features questions at the end of each page that act as exercises or further thinking.
Creador/Autor:: Wells, William Harvey, 1812-1885
Peticionario:: Russel Durst
Fecha modificada:: 05/23/2016
Fecha de creacion:: 1846
Licencia:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Weld's English Grammar: illustrated by exercises in composition, analyzing, and parsing

Type:: Document
Descripción/Resumen:: A grammar handbook that offers various styles of exercises.
Creador/Autor:: Weld, Allen Hayden, 1812-1882
Peticionario:: Russel Durst
Fecha modificada:: 05/23/2016
Fecha de creacion:: 1849
Licencia:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

American Letter-Writers 1698 - 1943

Type:: Document
Descripción/Resumen:: 1945 printing. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of December, 1944 and January, 1945. A handbook on letter-writing that excludes examples of historical, literary, and specialized (such as business) correspondence in favor of a general letter-writer for the "average" person. Introduction covers the history of the letter-writer handbook, dating back 1568. It credits much of its history to Katherine Gee Hornbeak's The Complete Letter Writing in English, 1568 – 1800. The text features examples of letters on general and specific topics (ex: A Father to his Daughter, Refusing his Consent to an Early Marriage). It also includes a bibliography called Preliminary Check List of American Letter-Writers, 1698-1943. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 54 page text.
Creador/Autor:: Weiss, Harry B. (Harry Bischoff), 1883-1972
Peticionario:: Russel Durst
Fecha modificada:: 05/23/2016
Fecha modificada:: 08/16/2020
Fecha de creacion:: 1905
Licencia:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

English Grammar Made Pleasant and Practicable: the parts which should be committed to memory being versified and prepared, as musical exercises, for the use of schools and classes; according to a plan of instruction which has been tried in other branches of education with the happiest effects

Composition and Rhetoric: By Practice, with exercises, adapted for use in high schools and colleges

Essentials of English Grammar: A Facsimile Reproduction with an Introduction by Charlotte Downey

Elements of Rhetoric: comprising the substance of the article in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana with Additions, &c.

First Lessons in English Grammar and Composition

Complete Rhetoric

English Composition: adapted to the wants of high schools, preparatory schools, and academies

A Grammar of the English Language

Weld's English Grammar: illustrated by exercises in composition, analyzing, and parsing

American Letter-Writers 1698 - 1943

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