A high-school astronomy : in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined with special reference to the wants of academies and seminaries of learning
The amateur's kitchen garden, frame-ground and forcing pit : a handy guide to the formation and management of the kitchen garden and the cultivation of useful vegetables and fruits
Ontario school bookkeeping : first course: a practical course in bookkeeping and business papers, for high and continuation schools and fifth classes in public schools
Contemporary specimens of compositions, accompanied by explanatory or supplementary letters by the authors themselves, describing their methods, habits of writing, revisions, etc. cf. Pref
A dictionary of correct English : a manual of information and advice concerning grammar, idiom, use of words, points of styles, punctuation, pronunciation, and other practical matters
Live and learn : a guide for all who wish to speak and write correctly, particularly intended as a book of reference for the solution of difficulties connected with grammar, composition, punctuation, etc., etc
Word expositor and spelling guide : school manual exhibiting the spelling, pronunciation, meaning, and derivation of all the important and peculiar words in the English language : with copious exercises for examination and dictation
A new self-teaching course in practical English and effective speech : comprising vocabulary development, grammar, pronunciation, enunciation, and the fundamental principles of effective oral expression
Lesson one. First among the evidences of an education I name correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue / Nicholas Murray Butler-- Lesson two. The flowering moments of the mind drop half their petals in our speech / Oliver Wendell Holmes-- Lesson three. Those things which now seem frivolous and slight will be of serious consequence to you, when they have made you once ridiculous / Earl of Roscommon-- Lesson four. His words, like so many nimble servitors, trip about him at command / Milton-- Lesson five. Talking is one of the fine arts... and its fluent harmonies may be spolied by the intrusion of a single harsh note / Oliver Wendell Holmes-- Lesson six. Language most shows a man; speak, that I may see thee / Ben Jonson-- Lesson seven. Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear / Joubert-- Lesson eight. And it is so plain to me that eloquence, like swimming, is an art which all men might learn, though so few do / Emerson-- Lesson nine. Mend your speech a litter, lest it may mar your fortunes / Shakespeare-- Lesson ten. Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade / Anonymous-- Lesson eleven. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact / George Eilot-- Lesson twelve. What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely / Goethe-- Lesson thirteen. Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future, conquests / Coleridge-- Lesson fourteen. The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none / Carlyle-- Lesson fifteen. He ceas's, but left so pleasing on the ear, his voice, that listening still they seemed to hear / Homer
A compendium of modern geography : with remarks on the physical peculiarities, productions, commerce, and government of the various countries; questions for examination at the end of each division and descriptive tables in which are give the pronunciation, and a concise account of every place of importance throughout the world
The Manitoba Department of Education presents : young Manitoba listens : a schedule and guide book of School Broadcasts which will be repesented in co-operation with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, October-May 1956-57
