Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practial Lessons on the Origin, History, and Pecularities of the English Language, Punctuation, Taste, the Pleasures of Imagination, Figures, Style and Its Essential Properties, Criticism, and the V

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The favor with which the public have kindly received the Ana thor's First Lessons in Composition, and the frequent calls made by Colleges and higher Academies for a more advanced work on the same plan, with which to follow it, have led to the prepara tion of the present volume. The elementary book to which refer ence has just been made, was intended to initiate the beginner by easy steps into the art of composition the work now offered to the public has a wider scope, embracing a variety of'subjects worthy of the attention of advanced pupils, and presenting much important matter heretofore scattered through a number Of different text books. Claiming to give a comprehensive and practical view of our language in all its relations, this Advanced Course views it as a whole, no less than with reference to the individual words composing it; shows how it compares with other tongues, modern and ancient; points out its beauties indicates how they may best be made avail able and, in a word, teaches the pupil the most philosophical method of digesting and arranging his thoughts, as well as the most correct and effective mode of expressing them.

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