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which it was compiled. He believes it is not too much to say, that it not only embraces, but presents in a more convenient method and form, the best portions, at least the most useful, of the works of Blair, Whateley, Beattie, Campbell, and Watts, while it comprehends, besides, the Practical Exercises, the History of the English Language and Literature, and the selections from British and American Poets, with critical notices, which did not enter into the plan of any of the above works.

As now enlarged, the work will, it is hoped, be deemed worthy of a general introduction into academies, while it has not thereby lost, in any degree, its adaptedness to the wants of common schools, especially in the improved condition to which they are advancing from year to year.

Watertown, January 2, 1846.

CONTENT S.

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS

SECT. I. Capital Letters

PART I.

I. SPELLING.

II. Spelling, how best learned

II. PUNCTUATION,

Remarks on its Importance and Necessity

III. USE OF WORDS.

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IV. Abridgment of Complex Sentences (continued)
V. Variety of Structure

VI. Variety of Structure and Expression

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VII. Complex Sentences

VIII. Ideas suggested to form Sentences

V. ARRANGEMENT OF SENTENCES.

SECT. I. Variety of Arrangement

II. Variety of Arrangement (continued)
III. Variety of Arrangement (continued)
IV. Expression of Ideas

V. Expression of Ideas (continued)

VI. Expression of Ideas (continued)
VII. Expression of Ideas (continued)

PART II.

I. STYLE.-II. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE.

PRELIMINARY CHAPTERS.

CHAP. I. Of Language, and its Origin

II. Alphabetic Writing

III. Materials Anciently used in Writing.
IV. Scarcity of Books in former Times

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