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ADVANCED COURSE

OF

COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC:

A Series of Practical Lessons

ON

THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PECULIARITIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, PUNC-
TUATION, TASTE, THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION, FIGURES, STYLE

AND ITS ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES, CRITICISM, AND THE VARIOUS
DEPARTMENTS OF PROSE AND POETICAL COMPOSITION;
ILLUSTRATED WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES.

ADAPTED TO SELF-INSTRUCTION, AND THE USE of schOOLS AND COLLEGES.

BY G. P. QUACKENBOS, LL. D.,

PRINCIPAL OF "THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL," N. Y.; AUTHOR OF "FIRST LESSONS IN
COMPOSITION," "AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR," "FIRST BOOK IN GRAMMAR,"
"ILLUSTRATED SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES," ETO.

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

NEW ON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY LIBRARY,
DECEMBER 18, 1933

By the same Author:

FIRST LESSONS IN COMPOSITION: In which the Principles of the Art are developed in connection with the Principles of Grammar.

FIRST BOOK IN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 12mo, pp. 120.

AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 12mo, pp. 288.

12mo, pp. 182.

ELEMENTARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Brought down to July, 1868. Splendidly illustrated. 12mo, pp. 216.

ILLUSTRATED SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES: with numerous Maps, Plans of Battle-fields, and Pictorial Illustrations. Brought down to July, 1868. 12mo, pp. 538.

A NATURAL PHILOSOPHY: Embracing the most recent Discoveries in Physics. Adapted to use with or without Apparatus, and accompanied with Practical Exercises and 335 Illustrations. 12mo, pp. 450.

A PRIMARY ARITHMETIC. Beautifully illustrated. 16mo, pp. 108.

AN ELEMENTARY ARITHMETIC. 12mo, pp. 144.

A PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC. 12mo, pp. 336. KEY to the same.

A MENTAL ARITHMETIC. 16mo, pp. 168.

A HIGHER OR COMMERCIAL ARITHMETIC. (In preparation.)

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
G. P. QUACKENBOS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern
District of New York.

TO

THE REV. DR. FERRIS,

CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,

AS

A TRIBUTE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPECT

FOR SOUND SCHOLARSHIP AND UNWEARIED LABORS IN THE CAUSE OF EDUCATION,

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