which it was compiled. He believes it is not too much to say, that it not only embraces, but presents in a more convenient method and form, the best portions, at least the most useful, of the works of Blair, Whateley, Beattie, Campbell, and Watts, while it comprehends, besides, the Practical Exercises, the History of the English Language and Literature, and the selections from British and American Poets, with critical notices, which did not enter into the plan of any of the above works. As now enlarged, the work will, it is hoped, be deemed worthy of a general introduction into academies, while it has not thereby lost, in any degree, its adaptedness to the wants of common schools, especially in the improved condition to which they are advancing from year to year. Watertown, January 2, 1846. II. Variety of Arrangement (continued) III. Variety of Arrangement (continued) V. Expression of Ideas (continued) I. STYLE.-II. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. PRELIMINARY CHAPTERS. CHAP. I Of Language, and its Origin II. Alphabetic Writing CHAP. V. Composition VI. Genius VII. Taste XX Of Sound united to the Sense 55 XVII. The Literary Merit and Style of the English Bible XVIII. The Form of Bible Poetry HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. CHAP. I. Of different Languages. II. Of the Primitive Languages of Europe IV. Of the early History of the English Language VII. The Effect on it of the Norman Conquest VIIL Of the Modern History of our Language CHAP I. English Literature under the Tudors and the first Stuarts. |