Essays that every child should know ; a selection of the writing of English and American essayists, ed.

Mode of access: Internet.

The modern speller; a text-book containing the 20,000 English words which are used most frequently in conversation and correspondence, exclusive of words of three or less letters; a course of lessons in English, rules for punctuation, with illustrations and exercises and a complete course in business letter writing ...

Mode of access: Internet.

A practical system of rhetoric, or, The principles and rules of style : inferred from examples of writing : to which is added a historical dissertation of English style /

Mode of access: Internet.

Many mistakes mended; containing two thousand five hundred corrections in speaking, pronouncing, and writing the English language ...

Mode of access: Internet.

French commercial correspondence with exercises, French-English and English-French glossaries, hints on letter-writing, and copious notes, /

Mode of access: Internet.

Rudiments of the Latin tongue: A plain and easy introduction to Latin grammar; wherein the principles of the language are methodically digested, both in English and Latin. With useful notes and observations...

Mode of access: Internet.

Rudiments of the Latin tongue: or, a plain and easy introduction to Latin grammar; wherein the principles of the language are methodically digested, both in English and Latin. With useful notes and observations...

Mode of access: Internet.

A practical system of rhetoric, or, The principles and rules of style : inferred from examples of writing : to which is added a historical dissertation on English style /

Mode of access: Internet.

The rhymester: or, The rules of rhyme. A guide to English versification. With a dictionary of rhymes, an examination of classical measures, and comments upon burlesque, comic verse and song-writing.

Mode of access: Internet.

Munson's system of phonography : the dictionary of practical phonography, giving the best phonographic forms for the words of the English language (sixty thousand), and for over five thousand proper names; also illustrating the principles of phrase-writing.

Mode of access: Internet.

English exercises, adapted to Murray's English grammar: : consisting of exercises in parsing;--instances of false orthography; violations of the rules of syntax;--defects in punctuation; and violations of the rules respecting perspicuous and accurate writing. : Designed for the benefit of private learners, as well as for the use of schools. /

Shaw & Shoemaker

The new world: college readings in English; with an introduction in thinking and writing, studying and reading,

Mode of access: Internet.

A grammar of the English language in a series of letters. Intended for the use of schools and of young persons in general ; but more especially for the use of soldiers, sailors, apprentices, and plough-boys. To which are added six lessons intended to prevent statesmen from using false grammar and from writing in an awkward manner.

Title on spine: Cobbett's grammar.

Plain reasons why neither Dr. Watts' Imitations of the Psalms, nor his other poems, nor any other human composition, ought to be used in the praises of the great God our Saviour--but, that a metre version of the book of Psalms, examined, with wise and critical care by pious and learned divines, and found by them to be as near the Hebrew metre Psalms, as the idiom of the English language would admit, ought to be used.

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Selections from the world's greatest short stories; illustrative of the history of short story writing;

Patient Griselda, from the "Decameron" of Boccaccio. Rewritten in English by the editor.--Aladdin, or The wonderful lamp, from "The Arabian nights".--Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving.--A passion in the desert, by Honoré de Balzac. Rewritten in English by the editor.--A child's dream of a star, by Charles Dickens.--A Christmas carol, by Charles Dickens.--A princess's tragedy, from "Barry Lyndon", by W.M. Thackeray.--The gold-bug, by Edgar Allan Poe.--The great stone face, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.--The necklace, and The string, by Guy de Maupassant. Rewritten in English by the editor.--The man who would be king, by Ruyard Kipling.--How Gavin Birse put it to Mag Lownie, from "A window in Thrums", by J.M. Barrie.--On the stairs, from "Tales of mean streets", by Arthur Morrison.