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. IV. Abridgment of Complex Sentences (continued) VI. Variety of Structure and Expression VII. Complex Sentences VIII. Ideas suggested to form Sentences V. ARRANGEMENT OF SENTENCES. SECT. I. Variety of Arrangement II. Variety of Arrangement (continued) V. Expression of Ideas (continued) VI. 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. VIL SECT. I. Beauty and Sublimity in Nature XX. Of Sound united to the Sense XXI. Choice of Words with a View to Energy and Vivacity HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. CHAP. I. Of different Languages . II. Of the Primitive Languages of Europe. IV. Of the early History of the English Language V. The Effect on it of the Saxon Conquest VI. The Effect on it of the Danish Conquest VII. The Effect on it of the Norman Conquest VIII. Of the Modern History of our Language CHAP. I. English Literature under the Tudors and the first Stuarts III. English Literature of the present Age IV. English Novels and Romances |