A Pocket Dictionary - William Richards

A Grammar of the English Tongue Samuel Johnson Genre: Foreign Languages Publish Date: 31 December 1783 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

Samuel Johnson was a well-known literary figure in England. Johnson was an author, lexicographer, biographer and critic. Johnson has been quoted more than any other English author with the exception of Shakespeare. Much of Johnson's fame is attributed to the biography done by Boswell. The biography centers on the latter part of Johnson's life, thus Johnson has been seen more as a gruff society figure than as the struggling and poverty-stricken writer that he was for much of his life. Johnson states that grammar is the art of using language correctly.

A Grammar of the English Tongue - Samuel Johnson

Everybody's Guide to Money Matters With a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing therein William Cotton Genre: Consumer Guides Publish Date: 31 December 1865 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

Money is the medium by which we may acquire from others, who are willing to part with them, such things as we may desire. The price of an article is the value set upon it by the possessor, as represented by an expressed sum in money.

Everybody's Guide to Money Matters - William Cotton

1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading B. A. Hathaway Genre: Reference Publish Date: 31 December 1851 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

The questions and answers on Reading deals with orthography. It includes definitions words and many more related terms.

1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading - B. A. Hathaway

An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South Angelina Emily Grimke Genre: Reference Publish Date: 31 December 1835 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

It is because I feel a deep and tender interest in your present and eternal welfare that I am willing thus publicly to address you. Some of you have loved me as a relative, and some have felt bound to me in Christian sympathy, and Gospel fellowship; and even when compelled by a strong sense of duty, to break those outward bonds of union which bound us together as members of the same community, and members of the same religious denomination, you were generous enough to give me credit, for sincerity as a Christian, though you believed I had been most strangely deceived. I thanked you then for your kindness, and I ask you now, for the sake of former confidence, and former friendship, to read the following pages in the spirit of calm investigation and fervent prayer. It is because you have known me, that I write thus unto you.

An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South - Angelina Emily Grimke

Enquire Within Upon Everything Anonymous Genre: Reference Publish Date: 31 December 1855 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

should be eaten when very fresh and, like mackerel, will not remain good many hours after they are caught. But they are excellent, especially for breakfast relishes, either salted, split, dried and peppered or pickled. Mackerel are very good when prepared in either of these ways.

Enquire Within Upon Everything - Anonymous

A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary John R. Clark Hall Genre: Foreign Languages Publish Date: 31 December 1854 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

This classic dictionary deals carefully and exhaustively with all the words which occur in Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose. Variant dialectic forms are given, together with variant forms found in the same dialect. Purely poetic words and words not common in prose are indicated, and references are given to the passages in which they occur. First published in 1894, this is a reprint of the fourth edition .

A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary - John R. Clark Hall

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop Genre: Quotations Publish Date: 31 December 1864 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

This book is delightful compendium of Scottish proverbs. This may be treated as reference quotation of scottish proverbs along with the given glossary.

The Proverbs of Scotland - Alexander Hislop

Half a Life-Time Ago Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Genre: Encyclopedias Publish Date: 31 December 1854 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, nee Stevenson (29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature.

Half a Life-Time Ago - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin Genre: Reference Publish Date: 31 December 1846 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

The population of Rouen is supposed to be full one hundred thousand souls. In truth, there is no end to the succession of human beings. They swarm like bees, and like bees are busy in bringing home the produce of their industry. You have all the bustle and agitation of Cheapside and Cornhill; only that the ever-moving scene is carried on within limits one-half as broad.

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One - Thomas Frognall Dibdin

The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Frances Ellen Lord Genre: Foreign Languages Publish Date: 31 December 1834 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

The grammarians speak of the obscure sound of I and U, short and unaccented in the middle of a word; so that in a number of words I and U were written indifferently, even by classic writers, as optimus or optumus, maximus or maxumus. This is but a simple and natural thing. The same obscurity occurs often in English, as, for instance, in words ending in able or ible. How easy, for instance, to confuse the sound and spelling in such words as detestable and digestible.

The Roman Pronunciation of Latin - Frances Ellen Lord

Cottage Economy William Cobbett Genre: Reference Publish Date: 31 December 1834 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

Here is his book of practical advice to the rural labouring 'cottager' (first published as a part-work in 1821-22), the precursor in many ways to the handbooks on self-sufficiency that today entice so many city-dwellers.

Cottage Economy - William Cobbett

Robert's Rules of Order Henry M. Robert Genre: Reference Publish Date: 31 December 1875 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

There appears to be much needed a work on parliamentary law, based, in its general principles, upon the rules and practice of Congress, and adapted, in its details, to the use of ordinary societies.

Robert's Rules of Order - Henry M. Robert

梦溪笔谈 沈括 Genre: Encyclopedias Publish Date: 24 June 2014 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

上亲郊郊庙,册文皆曰‘恭荐岁事’。先景灵宫,谓之‘朝献’;次太庙,谓之‘朝飨’;末乃有事于南郊。予集《郊式》时,曾预讨论,常疑其次序,若先为尊,则效不应在庙后;若后为尊,则景灵宫不应在太庙之先。求共所从来,盖有所因。按唐故事,凡有事地上帝,则百神皆预遣使祭告,唯太清宫、太庙则皇帝亲行。其册祝皆曰‘取某月某日有事于某所,不敢不告。’宫、庙谓之‘奏告’,余皆谓之‘祭告’。唯有事于南郊,方为‘正祠’。至天宝九载,乃下诏曰:‘“告”者,上告下之词。今后太清宫宜称“朝献”,太庙称“朝飨”。’自此遂失‘奏告’之名,册文皆为‘正祠’。

梦溪笔谈 - 沈括

Orthography Elmer W. Cavins & Edwin C. Hewett Genre: Study Aids Publish Date: 01 January 1938 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

This text was written with the intention of aiding teachers of the seventh and eighth grades in educating their pupils on the subject of orthography. The book provides lists of words broken down by their Greek and Latin roots.

Orthography - Elmer W. Cavins & Edwin C. Hewett

The Annual Catalogue (1737) W. Warner Genre: Catalogues & Directories Publish Date: 08 March 1609 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

This Catalogue includes new books published in History, Divinity, Law, Poetry, Plays, Novels, Painting, Architecture, and all other Sciences from January the First, 1736, to January the First, 1737.

The Annual Catalogue (1737) - W. Warner

The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. W. H. Smyth & Sir Edward Belcher Genre: Dictionaries & Thesauruses Publish Date: 08 August 1865 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

This volume, published in 1867, is a dictionary of sea terms and phrases by British Admiral William Henry Smyth, organized in alphabetical order from A to Zumbra.

The Sailor's Word-Book - W. H. Smyth & Sir Edward Belcher

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two Thomas Frognall Dibdin Genre: Reference Publish Date: 31 December 1846 Publisher: Public Domain Seller: Public Domain

This will remind you of Jervas’s celebrated piece of nonsensical flattery to himself—­when, on Pope’s complimenting that artist upon one of his portraits, he compassionately exclaimed “Poor little Tit!” Surely all these national prejudices are as unwise as they are disgusting. Of Gerard, I would wish to speak with respect; but an artist, who receives from fifteen to twenty thousand francs for the painting of a whole length portrait, stands upon an eminence which exposes him to the observation of every man. In the same degree, also, does his elevation provoke the criticism of every man.

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two - Thomas Frognall Dibdin