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Page 4 - ... the right whereof he claims as author (or proprietor as the case may be;) in conformity with an act of Congress, entitled 'An act to amend the several acts respecting copyrights.
Page 4 - ANSLEY, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the title of which is in the words following, to wit : " Elements of Literature ; or, an Introduction to the Study of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.
Page 4 - AN ANALYSIS OF THE DERIVATIVE WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ; Or a Key to their precise Analytic Definitions, by Prefixes and Suffixes. Designed to furnish an easy and expeditious method of acquiring a knowledge of derivative words, from a knowledge of their component parts. By SALEM TOWNE, AM Third Edition, carefully revised, enlarged, and adapted to schools of all grades.
Page 9 - ... who are most opposed to the multiplication of school books, that Mr Towne's work supplies a niche where there was a real deficiency. The scholar, in acquiring the art of spelling, with the aid of this work, will not be confined to an unmeaning process ; all is clear, intelligible, and inviting. He will 'learn to examine the structure of words, and trace out various formations from the same root, something in the manner as the classical student is exercised in Greek and Latin. In this way he readily...
Page 26 - ... done, but prefix im, and it becomes impossible, and means cannot be done. 2. Most prefixes are readily written by the application of the rules, which you have already learned, and the following lists of words, which are given especially for practice on the prefixes...
Page 8 - When, therefore, he comes into public life, and must be responsible for the precise ideas his words convey, he is often compelled to make frequent appeals to his dictionary, in relation to some of the most common words in the language. Who does not know this from his own experience, when just stepping into public life?
Page 62 - COLLUDE, koMude', [L. eolludo.] vi To play into the hand of each other; to conspire In a fraud; to act in concert COLLCDEB, kol-lu'dAr, N.
Page 8 - Pittsburgh, availed himself of the opinions of many others, some of whom, at least, were men of undoubted qualifications.
Page 10 - A compound word is composed of two or more distinct words, as Sugar-maple, Over-load, Common-placebook.
Page 6 - ... confer some of the important benefits, which the classical student now receives almost exclusively, on our^coinmon English scholars.