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applied arrangement attention audience Author Aytoun's balanced Bart begin CHARLES LAPWORTH cloth common composition criticism Crown 8vo departure diction Dictionary easy Edinburgh Editor effective writers ENGLISH PROSE LITERATURE Engravings epigram exaggerate example expression Fcap feeling figurative language figures of speech genius give Glasgow grammatical Greek habit hints Hyperbole ideas Illustrations impression intelligence interest irony JOHN VEITCH Latin literary LL.D LUCAS COLLINS lucid master meaning merely metaphor metonym mind natural object ordinary Paleontology paragraphs personification Philosophy phrases Physical Geography plain practice precept principle Professor Johnston's Professor of Logic question Quintilian reason Revised rhetorical rhetoricians rule School Science scientific simile simple simplicity Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON smock-frock speaker structure of sentences student technically Tenth Edition Text-Book of Geology things Third Edition thought tion truth UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN University of Glasgow vocabulary WILLIAM BLACKWOOD WILLIAM MINTO words Zoology
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الصفحة 9 - NICHOLSON. A Manual of Zoology, for the Use of Students. With a General Introduction on the Principles of Zoology. By HENRY ALLEYNE NICHOLSON, MD, D.Sc., FLS, FGS, Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen.
الصفحة 12 - DESCARTES. The Method, Meditations, and Principles of Philosophy of Descartes. Translated from the Original French and Latin. With a New Introductory Essay, Historical and Critical, on the Cartesian Philosophy. By JOHN VEITCH, LL.D., Professor of Logic and Rhetoric in the University of Glasgow.
الصفحة 4 - STORMONTH. Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. Including a very Copious Selection of Scientific Terms. For Use in Schools and Colleges, and as a Book of General Reference. By the Rev. JAMES STORMONTH. The Pronunciation carefully Revised by the Rev. PH PHELP, MA Cantab. Tenth Edition, Revised throughout. Crown 8vo, pp. 800. 7s. 6d. Dictionary of the English Language...
الصفحة 8 - Facts and Dates ; or, the Leading Events in Sacred and Profane History, and the Principal Facts in the various Physical Sciences. The Memory being aided throughout by a Simple and Natural Method. For Schools and Private Reference.
الصفحة 14 - ANCIENT CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH READERS. EDITED BY THE REV. W. LUCAS COLLINS, MA Complete in 28 Vols.
الصفحة 14 - It is difficult to estimate too highly the value of such a series as this in giving 'English readers' an insight, exact as far as it goes, into those olden times which are so remote and yet to many of us so close.
الصفحة 9 - We have carefully read this truly satisfactory book, and do not hesitate to say that It is an excellent compendium of the great facts of Geology, and written in a truthful and philosophic spirit."— Edinburgh Philosophical Journal.
الصفحة 12 - HAMILTON. Lectures on Metaphysics. By Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, Bart. , Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. Edited by the Rev. HL MANSEL, BD, LL.D., Dean of St Paul's ; and JOHN VEITCH, MA, Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, Glasgow.
الصفحة 2 - MINTO. A Manual of English Prose Literature, Biographical and Critical : designed mainly to show Characteristics of Style. By W. MINTO, MA, Professor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen. Third Edition, revised. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. Characteristics of English Poets, from Chaucer to Shirley. New Edition, revised. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d.
الصفحة 4 - Crown 8vo, pp. 800 7s. 6d. The School Etymological Dictionary and Word-Book. Combining the advantages of an ordinary pronouncing School Dictionary and an Etymological Spelling-book. Fcap. 8vo, pp. 254. 2s. STORY. Graffiti D'ltalia. By "WW STORY, Author of