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THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PECULIARITIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, PUNO-
TUATION, TASTE, THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION, FIGURES, STYLE
AND ITS ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES, CRITICISM, AND THE VARIOUS

DEPARTMENTS OF PROSE AND POETICAL COMPOSITION:

ILLUSTRATED WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES.

ADAPTED TO SELF-INSTRUCTION, AND THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.

"True grace in writing comes from ART, not chance."-POPE.

BY G. P. QUACKENBOS, A.M.,

PRINCIPAL OF "THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL," N. Y.; AUTHOR OF "FIRST LESSONS IN
COMPOSITION," "ADVANCED COURSE OF COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC,"
"ILLUSTRATED SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES," ETC.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETΟΝ & CO., 443 & 445 BROADWAY.

CINCINNATI:

RICKEY, MALLORY & COMPANY.

1861.

Edue T768.61.720

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
GIFT OF

GEORGE ARTHUR PLIMPTON

JANGRY 25, 1024

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

First Lessons in Composition,

IN WHICH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ART ARE DEVELOPED IN CONNECTION WITH THE
PRINCIPLES OF GRAMMAR: EMBRACING FULL DIRECTIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF
PUNCTUATION, WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES.

Illustrated School History

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

FROM THE EARLIEST DISCOVERIES TO THE PRESENT TIME; EMBRACING A FULL AC-
COUNT OF THE ABORIGINES, BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF DISTINGUISHED MEN, AND
NUMEROUS MAPS, PLANS OF BATTLE FIELDS, AND PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS.

A Natural Philosophy:

EMBRACING THE MOST RECENT DISCOVERIES IN THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF PHYSICS,
AND EXHIBITING THE APPLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES IN EVERY-DAY LIFE,
ADAPTED TO USE WITH OR WITHOUT APPARATUS, AND ACCOMPANIED WITH FULL
DESCRIPTIONS OF EXPERIMENTS, AND PRACTICAL EXERCISES. ILLUSTRATED IN THE

MOST LIBERAL MANNER.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854,

By G. P. QUACKENBOS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern

District of New York,

TO

THE REV. DR. FERRIS.

CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,

AS A TRIBUTE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPECT

FOR SOUND SCHOLARSHIP AND UNWEARIED LABORS IN THE CAUSE OF EDUCATION NO LESS THAN AS A MEMORIAL

OF

PRIVATE ESTEEM AND FRIENDSHIP,

THIS VOLUME

Es Respectfully Dedicated

BY

THE AUTHOR.