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  • Elements of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Compiled for the Use of Schools

    Document thumbnail: Elements of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Compiled for the Use of Schools
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    Creator/Author:
    Andrews, John
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    03/31/2017
    Date Created:
    1818
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Elements of English Composition

    Document thumbnail: The Elements of English Composition
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    Creator/Author:
    Irving, David, 1778-1860
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    03/31/2017
    Date Created:
    1803
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Secondary Lessons on the Improved Reader

    Document thumbnail: Secondary Lessons on the Improved Reader
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    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    Written Notes
    Creator/Author:
    Willard, Samuel, 1775-1859
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    03/31/2017
    Date Created:
    1827
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Elements of Composition and Rhetoric with Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and Construction

    Document thumbnail: Elements of Composition and Rhetoric with Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and Construction
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    1889 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Teacher of Rhetoric in the Richmond High Schools, Richmond, VA. A practical treatise on rhetoric for the lower grades of high school. Includes a discussion of simple, complex, and compound sentences, as students still need this review of grammar (in part because their grammar instruction has been analytical rather than synthetical). Lessons include a section of reproduction and a section of development. The Reproductions furnishes material for practice of the discussed principles. The Developments section is a more advanced step, giving play to the imagination by supplying the details of a connected story, while also serving as a test of style. Chapters cover kinds of sentences, paragraphing, variety of expression, style, figures of speech, special properties of style, paraphrasing, kinds of prose composition, prosody and versification, and poetry. The Schultz Archive copy includes the preface, TOC, a few scattered pages, and pages 309 – 335 on prose composition.
    Creator/Author:
    Waddy, Virginia, 1850-1911
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/16/2020
    Date Created:
    1888
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • School Composition: Being Advanced Language-Lessons For Grammar Schools

    Document thumbnail: School Composition: Being Advanced Language-Lessons For Grammar Schools
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    1874 printing of 1874 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts and as the author of several language texts. A manual for school work for students ages 12 to 15 made with reference to the recent remodeling of language-training in the public schools. Students are given exercise in actual composition at the same time they taught the details of rhetorical theory, based on the idea that pupils must be taught how to write at all, before they can be shown how to write well. The text is divided into five parts. Part one covers the construction and combination of sentences. Part two: the variation of arrangement, structure, and phraseology. Part three: simple composition exercises, including descriptive and narrative subjects. Part four: Style, including word choice, construction, figures of language, and analysis of style. Part five: practical composition of themes and essays. The preface credits the influence of English Prose Composition by James Currie, Cornwall's Young Composer, Dalgleish's English Composition, and Armstrong's English Composition. The Schultz Archive copy includes the preface, TOC, introduction, all of part three, pages 82 – 87 of part four, and all of part five.
    Creator/Author:
    Swinton, William, 1833-1892
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/16/2020
    Date Created:
    1874
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Smithdeal's Practical Grammar, Speller and Letter-Writer: For Use in Business Colleges, Academies, Public and Private Schools

    Document thumbnail: Smithdeal's Practical Grammar, Speller and Letter-Writer: For Use in Business Colleges, Academies, Public and Private Schools
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    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    N/A
    Creator/Author:
    Smithdeal, Grace H.
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/10/2016
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Writer Being One of a Series of Handbooks Upon Practical Expression A Correlation of the Principles of Elocution and Rhetoric Applied to Every Detail

    Document thumbnail: The Writer Being One of a Series of Handbooks Upon Practical Expression A Correlation of the Principles of Elocution and Rhetoric Applied to Every Detail
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    1893 printing of 1893 copyrighted text. Raymond is credited with a L.H.D., as Professor of Oratory and Aesthetic Criticism in the College of New Jersey at Princeton, and as the author of several texts. Wheeler is credited with a Litt.D. and as University Fellow in English 1891-2, and in Oratory and Aesthetic Criticism 1892-3, in the College of New Jersey. A textbook designed to combine elocution and rhetoric, as these are often taught together. Preface argues that as elocution is simpler, it can used as an aid to understanding rhetoric. The introduction discusses "Elocution and Rhetoric Correlated." The section on style covers effects corresponding to those of elocutionary time, to those of elocutionary pitch, to those of elocutionary force, and to those of elocutionary quality. The section on theme cover the selection, limitation, a division of subjects, and the treatment of subjects as determined by their aims and readers. The Schultz Archive copy contains the preface, TOC, the introduction, and pages 166 – 203, (the theme section and the index).
    Creator/Author:
    Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 and Wheeler, George P.
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/11/2020
    Date Created:
    1893
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Practical Rhetoric and Composition: A Complete and Practical Discussion of Capital Letters, Punctuation Letter-Writing, Style, and Composition

    Document thumbnail: Practical Rhetoric and Composition: A Complete and Practical Discussion of Capital Letters, Punctuation Letter-Writing, Style, and Composition
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    1887 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts, a PhD, as Ex-President of Delaware College, and as the author of several educational texts. The preface states to be a treatise on rhetoric and composition that is practical and teachable. It identifies two objectives: teaching ease, grace, fluency and correctness; enabling discernment and appreciation of literary works. Lessons are followed by copious exercises. These exercises include criticism of faulty expressions and construction of sentences, figures, etc. The section headings are: capital letters, punctuation, letter-writing, rhetoric (broken into style, sentences, paragraphing, figurative language, variety of expression, special properties of style and varieties of style), composition (broken into invention, parts of composition, prose composition, poetry, and versification), and rhetoric and literature. The Schultz Archive copy includes the preface, TOC, and pages 54 – 93, and 258 - 285. Some pages are difficult to read due to quality of the copying.
    Creator/Author:
    Raub, Albert N. (Albert Newton), 1840-1904
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/11/2020
    Date Created:
    1887
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Outlines of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres

    Document thumbnail: Outlines of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres
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    1854 copyrighted text. Author is credited with an M.A. and as the author of The Poets and Poetry of the Ancient Greeks. Preface credits influence of Longinus and Quintilian by way of Blair. Covers principles of taste and origin of language up to the epic and dramatic forms. Makes a (new?) distinction between rhetoric and belles-lettres. The first chapter on language covers: origin and progress of language, origin and progress of writing, structure of language (in two parts). Chapter two (style) covers: perspicuity and precision and structure of sentences (in three parts). Chapter three (figurative language) covers: origin and nature of figurative language, metaphor, hyperbole, comparison—antithesis—interrogation—etc., and general character of style. Chapter four (components of a regular discourse) covers: introduction—division—narration, argument—pathos—peroration, pronunciation and delivery. Chapter five is beauty and sublimity. Chapter six eloquence. Chapter seven different kinds of public speaking. Chapter eight poetry. Schultz Archive copy contains preface, TOC, the first chapter on taste, and the section on historical, epistolary, and fictitious writing from chapter seven.
    Creator/Author:
    Mills, Abraham, 1796-1867
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/30/2020
    Date Created:
    1854
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • English Grammar with Chapters on Composition, Versification, Paraphrasing, and Puncuation

    Document thumbnail: English Grammar with Chapters on Composition, Versification, Paraphrasing, and Puncuation
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    1894 printing of 1887 copyrighted text. The author is credited with an M.A. and as Professor of the Theory, History, and Practice of Education in the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. The preface states the text has material for four years of study and one year of training college for pupil-teachers. It also suggests its use in colleges, ladies' seminaries, high schools, academies, preparatory and normal schools. The text aims for simplicity and clearness. Part one's chapters cover orthography, etymology, words and their functions, syntax, analysis, word-building and derivation, word-branching, words derived from names of persons and places, words disguised in form, and words that have changed in meaning. Part two covers composition, punctuation, figures of speech, paraphrasing, prosody exercises and exam questions. The Schultz Archive copy contains the preface, TOC, and the section on composition from part two.
    Creator/Author:
    Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow), 1830-1902
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/30/2020
    Date Created:
    1894
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0