An Introduction to the Classics: Containing a Short Discourse on Their Excellencies; and Directions how to Study Them to Advantage. With an Essay on the Nature and Use of Those Emphatical and Beautiful Figures which Give Strength and Ornament to Writing |
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| Title | An Introduction to the Classics: Containing a Short Discourse on Their Excellencies; and Directions how to Study Them to Advantage. With an Essay on the Nature and Use of Those Emphatical and Beautiful Figures which Give Strength and Ornament to Writing |
| Author | Anthony Blackwall |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | C. Rivington, 1737 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 271 pages |
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