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Excerpt from English for Immediate UsePupils in secondary schools are not at all interested in scholarly classifications or nomenclatures. To them, as a rule, formal rhetoric is a burden and anathema. In their actual living, aside from doing so at the com mand of teachers they seldom, if ever, sit down to write narration, description, if exposition, or argument as such. They try to make known their desires, to tell what they have seen and hear...

Excerpt from Selections From American Poetry: With Special Attention to Longfellow, Whittier, Poe and LowellThe purpose of this text is to present material for the present college entrance requirement for reading Selec tions from American Poets, with special attention to Long fellow, Whittier, Poe, and Lowell. Its further purpose is to present poems so carefully chosen with regard to points of contact with adolescent life that they will give i...

Excerpt from Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing, Edited, With Introduction, Notes, Suggestive Questions, Subjects for Written Imitation, Directions for Writing, and Original IllustrationsThe extremely Latinized vocabulary of 1711, or the resonant periods and marked antitheses of 1850, are as old-fashioned to-day as are the once highly respected periwigs, g...

Excerpt from Ad MiriamHere the river winds among the meadows, And the wooded hilltops rise on high, Where the snow is pure and deep all winter Underneath a calm, protecting sky, Where in summer one must walk and wander Over nodding pastures sweet and white: Yea - must climb to where the lofty woodland Holds its glades of dim and prayerful light, There she sleeps in peace, with nature's music Breathing o'er the hilltop where she lies, Sleeps, a...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools For many years high school teachers have wished for books of short stories edited for high school use. They have known that most novels, however interesting, are too long to hold attention, and that too few novels can be read to give proper appreciation of form in narration. The essay, as seen in The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, and in Irving's Sketch Book, has been a poor substitute...

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Excerpt from Mastery of Speech, Vol. 1 of 8: A Course in Eight Parts on General Speech, Business Talking and Public Speaking, What to Say and How to Say It Under All Conditions In Book I you are to learn how to speak correctly and? Pleasingly, and how to avoid the speech errors that inter fere with both the pleasure of social life and the success. Of business life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare ...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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Excerpt from English for Immediate Use Most pupils have not the faintest wish to cultivate literary style, or to become writers of books. The great majority of pupils in secondary schools will not even enter college: they will go out at once into the work of the world. Most pupils say frankly that they do not intend to give their days and nights to the study of Addison, and that they would not write like Addison, if they could. They do wish e...

Excerpt from Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools For many years high school teachers have wished for books of short stories edited for high school use. They have known that most novels, however interesting, are too long to hold attention, and that too few novels can be read to give proper appreciation of form in narration. The essay, as seen in The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, and in Irving's Sketch Book, has been a poor substitute...

Excerpt from Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing, Edited, With Introduction, Notes, Suggestive Questions, Subjects for Written Imitation, Directions for Writing, and Original Illustrations In all schools pupils are expected to write "essays" but, curiously enough, essay-reading and essay-writing are taught but little. In spite of that neglect, the essay is...

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