Language Books
Latin for Beginners
Benjamin L. D'OogeLatin for Beginners is a guide to learn Latin language grammar with example problems, and exercises written by Benjamin L. D'Ooge, Professor In The Michigan State Normal College.To make..
A Collection of Scotch Proverbs
Pappity StampoyA Collection of Scotch Proverbs written by Pappity Stampoy translated to English language. In his collection of Scottish proverbs from literary texts written before 1600 Bartlett Jere Whitin..
The Glory of English Prose
Stephen ColeridgeThe Glory of English Prose is a collection of letters to his grandson written by Stephen Coleridge, an English author, barrister, opponent of vivisection, and co-founder of the National Society f..
The New McGuffey Fourth Reader
William Holmes McGuffeyYoung Benjamin Franklin, by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A Hard Word -- A Song, by James Whitcomb Riley -- The Journey of Life. An Allegory -- What I live for -- Try Again!, by Charlotte Elizabeth -- True M..
Slips of Speech
John H. BechtelHomer, in all probability, knew no rules of rhetoric, and was not tortured with the consideration of grammatical construction, and yet his verse will endure through time. If everybody possessed the ge..
The Origin of Thought and Speech
M. MoncalmEverything around us tends to keep us in this penumbra, which is so favourable to inertia, ignorance, sleep. Certain groups of philosophical ideas become condensed and systematised; in some systems th..
The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language Explained and Illustrated
Alexander CrombieThe Treatise, the second edition of which now solicits the notice of the public, is intended chiefly for the improvement of those, who have made some advancement in classic literature. That an acquain..
The English Secretary
Angel DayThe English Secretary; or, Methode of Writing Epistles and Letters (1599)With, a Declaration of Such Tropes, Figures, and Schemes, as Either Usually or for Ornament Sake Are Therein Required.Now becau..