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Half-hours with the Best American Authors
Author: Half-hours with the Best American Authors
Author: Charles MorrisPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Half-hours with the Best American Authors
Author: Charles MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
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Half-hours with the Best American Authors
Author: Half-hours with the Best American Authors
Author: Charles MorrisPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Half Hours with the Best American Authors. Selected and Arranged by C.M.
Author: Charles MORRIS (of Philadelphia.)Publisher:
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Half-Hours with the Best American Authors
Author: Charles MorrisPublisher: Hansebooks
ISBN: 9783337279394
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Languages : en
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Half-Hours with the Best American Authors - Vol. IV is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Half-Hours with the Best American Authors
Author: Charles MorrisPublisher: General Books
ISBN: 9781235848735
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1891 Excerpt: ... Thim we sing, and dance, and play, Round the wild witch-hazel tree. But hark! from tower on tree-top high The sentry elf his call has made: A streak is in the eastern sky. Shapes of moonlight! flit and fade! The hill-tops gleam in morning's spring, The skylark shakes his dappled wing, The day-glimpse glimmers on the lawn, The cock has' crowed, and the fays are gone. THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE. W. D. WHITNEY. The science of philology, which has elicited so many profound and admirahle treatises in recent times from the scholars of Europe, has also had ardent students in America, whose work bears fair comparison with that of their European competitors. Among these Professor Whitney stands at the head, his philological labors being nowhere surpassed: n depth, accuracy, and scientific value. We append a short extract from his "Language and the Study of Language," mainly is illustrative of his style. William Dwight Whitney was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1827. His diligent philological labors in American and German universities brought him the professorship of Sanskrit and comparative philology at Yale College, which ho still holds. He has written several works and many periodical articles, all marked by learning, judgment, and clear insight into his subject. We may fairly claim, in the first place, that the subject has been very greatly simplified, stripped of no small part of its difficulty and mystery, by what has already been proved as to the history of speech. Did we find no traces of a primitive condition of language different from its later manifestations, --did it appear to us as from the very beginning a completely-developed apparatus, of complicated structure, with distinct signs for objects, qualities, activities, and abstract conceptions, with it...
Half-hours with the Best Humorous Authors
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Half-Hours With the Best American Authors, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Charles MorrisPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484375870
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Excerpt from Half-Hours With the Best American Authors, Vol. 3 America. The Gulf Stream The Storming of the Bastille An Astonished Gambler The Black Regiment First Impressions Of Japan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.