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Waswere
In the subjunctive mood the plural form were should be used w...
Indispensable Books
Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Goethe.
(The best...
Clearness
Clearness of style should be one of the leading consideration...
Choice Of Words
In another place in this book advice has been given to ...
Other And Another
These are words which often give to expressions a meaning far...
Broken Construction
Sometimes the beginning of a sentence presents quite a differ...
X L C D M1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000.
(9) Proper names begin with a capital; as, "Jones, Johnson, C...
Purity
Purity of style consists in using words which are reputable, ...
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A GOOD LIBRARY |
Great Authors--Classification--The World's Best Books.
Besides the works mentioned everyone should endeavor to have the following:
Plutarch's Lives, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Chaucer, Imitation
of Christ (Thomas a Kempis), Holy Living and Holy Dying (Jeremy Taylor),
Pilgrim's Progress, Macaulay's Essays, Bacon's Essays, Addis on s Essays,
Essays of Elia (Charles Lamb), Les Miserables (Hugo), Heroes and Hero
Worship (Carlyle), Pal-grave's Golden Treasury, Wordsworth, Vicar of
Wake field, Adam Bede (George Eliot), Vanity Fair (Thackeray),
Ivanhoe (Scott), On the Heights (Auerbach), Eugenie Grandet (Balzac),
Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne), Emerson's Essays, Boswell's Life of
Johnson, History of the English People (Green), Outlines of Universal
History, Origin of Species, Montaigne's Essays, Longfellow, Tennyson,
Browning, Whittier, Ruskin, Herbert Spencer.
A good encyclopoedia is very desirable and a reliable dictionary
indispensable.
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