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Textbooks, lectures and guides to learning.

Classic textbooks and lectures on teaching, rhetoric, languages and self-education, from Quintilian to Montessori.

International Language, Past, Present & Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar
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International Language, Past, Present & Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar

Walter John Clark

The Art of Writing & Speaking the English Language: Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric
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The Art of Writing & Speaking the English Language: Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric

Sherwin Cody

Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear: Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks
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Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear: Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks

B. J. Griswold

A Girl's Student Days and After
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A Girl's Student Days and After

Jeannette Augustus Marks

The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language Explained and Illustrated
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The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language Explained and Illustrated

Alexander Crombie

The Roman Pronunciation of Latin: Why We Use It and How to Use It
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The Roman Pronunciation of Latin: Why We Use It and How to Use It

Frances E. Lord

The Sabbath-School Index: Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.
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The Sabbath-School Index: Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.

R. G. Pardee

Practical Guide to English Versification: With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination; of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and; Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing
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Practical Guide to English Versification: With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination; of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and; Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

Tom Hood

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848

Various

The Complete Club Book for Women: Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc.
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The Complete Club Book for Women: Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc.

Caroline French Benton

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures: Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises: designed for the use of schools and private learners
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English Grammar in Familiar Lectures: Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises: designed for the use of schools and private learners

Samuel Kirkham

The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant: Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety
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The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant: Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety

John Hamilton Moore

The Public School Word-book: A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities
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The Public School Word-book: A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

John Stephen Farmer

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English
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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English

Grenville Kleiser

Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes: First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552
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Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes: First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552

Garrick Mallery

Austral English: A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia
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Austral English: A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia

Edward Ellis Morris

Delight and power in speech: A universal dramatic reader; a new, complete and practical method of securing delight and efficiency in silent and oral reading and private and public speech; together with a large and varied collection of carefully chosen selections in prose and poetry, with chapters on "The cultivation of the memory" and "After dinner speaking."
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Delight and power in speech: A universal dramatic reader; a new, complete and practical method of securing delight and efficiency in silent and oral reading and private and public speech; together with a large and varied collection of carefully chosen selections in prose and poetry, with chapters on "The cultivation of the memory" and "After dinner speaking."

George Wharton James

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals
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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

John Jamieson

Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 1 of 7: A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.
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Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 1 of 7: A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

William Ernest Henley

The Palmer Method of Business Writing: A Series of Self-teaching in Rapid, Plain, Unshaded, Coarse-pen, Muscular Movement Writing for Use in All Schools, Public or Private, Where an Easy and Legible Handwriting is the Object Sought; Also for the Home Learner
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The Palmer Method of Business Writing: A Series of Self-teaching in Rapid, Plain, Unshaded, Coarse-pen, Muscular Movement Writing for Use in All Schools, Public or Private, Where an Easy and Legible Handwriting is the Object Sought; Also for the Home Learner

A. N. Palmer

Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 2 of 7: A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.
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Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 2 of 7: A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

William Ernest Henley

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Various

Spontaneous Activity in Education
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Spontaneous Activity in Education

Maria Montessori

Home Education Series Vol. VI: Towards A Philosophy of Education
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Home Education Series Vol. VI: Towards A Philosophy of Education

Charlotte Mason