A Course of English Reading: Adapted to Every Taste and Capacity: with Literary AnecdotesLongman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1850 - 294 sider |
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... tion , p .; Burke's Opinion , see Life , p .. So my History became an index or Common - Place Book . The time at which reading is most improving , is when , as you read the table of contents , you feel impatience to begin the chapter ...
... tion , p .; Burke's Opinion , see Life , p .. So my History became an index or Common - Place Book . The time at which reading is most improving , is when , as you read the table of contents , you feel impatience to begin the chapter ...
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... tion as they inform , but as they elicit ; and who are so able to elicit as those who are not vain- glorious to pour forth , but habitually intent on the great end of all company and conversation - to hear , and observe , and be ...
... tion as they inform , but as they elicit ; and who are so able to elicit as those who are not vain- glorious to pour forth , but habitually intent on the great end of all company and conversation - to hear , and observe , and be ...
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... to run alone . A youthful taste must be indulged in its own way , and gradually led on by timely encouragement , and the influence of supe- rior minds , to mingle works of valuable informa- tion 52 COURSE OF ENGLISH READING .
... to run alone . A youthful taste must be indulged in its own way , and gradually led on by timely encouragement , and the influence of supe- rior minds , to mingle works of valuable informa- tion 52 COURSE OF ENGLISH READING .
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... tion with those of more thrilling interest . Thus from criminal trials ( and who has not read the Newgate Calendar ? ) youths may acquire much information of the principles and practice of the laws of their country ; trials for murders ...
... tion with those of more thrilling interest . Thus from criminal trials ( and who has not read the Newgate Calendar ? ) youths may acquire much information of the principles and practice of the laws of their country ; trials for murders ...
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... tion , " says the author of Woman's Mission , " how- ever valuable of itself , requires the principle of combination to make it useful . Stones and bricks are valuable things , very valuable ; but they are not beautiful or useful till ...
... tion , " says the author of Woman's Mission , " how- ever valuable of itself , requires the principle of combination to make it useful . Stones and bricks are valuable things , very valuable ; but they are not beautiful or useful till ...
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Side 287 - A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art : Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge ; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use. Edited by WT BRANDE, FRSL and E.
Side 26 - TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE AND LIBRARY OF REFERENCE. Comprising an English Dictionary and Grammar, Universal Gazetteer, Classical Dictionary, Chronology, Law Dictionary, &c.
Side 26 - One half the world does not know how the other half lives...
Side 27 - Moore.— The Power of the Soul over the Body, considered in relation to Health and Morals. By GEORGE MOORE, MD, Member of the Royal College of Physicians.
Side 113 - MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ., FRS Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II.; comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev.
Side 9 - He told us, he read Fielding's Amelia through without stopping *. He said,' if a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it, to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
Side 10 - Sharp's New British Gazetteer, or Topographical Dictionary of the British Islands and Narrow Seas : Comprising concise Descriptions of about Sixty Thousand Places, Seats, Natural Features, and Objects of Note, founded on the best Authorities ; full Particulars of the Boundaries, Registered Electors, etc. of the Parliamentary Boroughs ; with a reference under every name to the Sheet of the Ordnance Survey...
Side 289 - DALE.— THE DOMESTIC LITURGY AND FAMILY CHAPLAIN, in Two Parts: The First Part being Church Services adapted for domestic use, with Prayers for every day of the week, selected exclusively from the Book of Common Prayer ; Part II. comprising an appropriate Sermon for every Sunday in the year. By the Rev. THOMAS DALE, MA, Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Side 10 - Sewell.— Laneton Parsonage : A Tale for Children, on the Practical Use of a portion of the Church Catechism. By the Author of Amy Herbert.
Side 291 - Boy's Country Book ; Being the Real Life of a Country Boy, written by himself ; exhibiting all the Amusements, Pleasures, and Pursuits of Children in the Country. New Edition ; with 40 Woodcuts. Fcp. 8vo. price 6s. Howitt.— The Rural Life of England. By WILLIAM HOWITT. New Edition, corrected and revised ; with Woodcuts by Bewick and Williams : Uniform with Visits to Remarkable Places.