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Page ii - Dalgleish's Introductory Text-Book of English COMPOSITION, based on GRAMMATICAL SYNTHESIS; containing Sentences, Paragraphs, and Short Essays. Is. Dalgleish's Advanced Text-Book of English ComPOSITION, treating of Style, Prose Themes, and Versification. 2s. Both Books bound together, 2s. 6d. KEY, 2s. 6d. English Grammar, founded on the Philosophy of Language and the Practice of the best Authors. With Copious Exercises, Constructive and Analytical. By CW CONNON, LL.D. 2s. 6d. Spectator.—" It exhibits...
Page ii - Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford; Author of the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, etc., etc. " Quite a practical work, and contains a vast quantity of important information, well arranged, and...
Page v - Corrected throughout. 4s. In composing the present work, the author's object has been, not to dissect the several countries of the world, and then label their dead limbs, but to depict each country, as made by God and modified by man, so that the relations between the country and its inhabitants — in other words, the present geographical life of the country — may appear.
Page 151 - Hell-door, in North Holland, so called because of the enormous pressure of the North Sea at this point. This dyke measures six miles in length, and is built entirely of granite blocks from Norway. The number of dykes in the interior along rivers, as well as on shore, may be understood from the frequent recurrence of the termination dam, ie, dyke, in names of places. Every precaution is taken to preserve them ; the stork, for example, is protected by law, because it eats the frogs and worms that would...