Composition-Rhetoric from Literature; For High Schools, Academies and Normal Schools

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Exercises 1. Write a biographical sketch of some relative, an uncle, an aunt, a great-grandfather, a great-grandmother, a cousin, a friend of your father or mother. 2. Write a biographical sketch of Dominicus Pike, the hero of Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, supplying from imagination such facts as are needed to make it complete according to the given plan. 3. Write a character sketch of one of your classmates giving a fictitious name. Follow the suggestions given as closely as possible. 4. Write a character sketch of Dominicus Pike. (See 2.) Note. Read. the Sir Roger de Coverly papers as models of character sketches. Section V. A Type Lesson The formation of the English language Name as many languages as you can that are spoken, written, and printed in the United States to-day. Account for the known facts. What languages are taught in the schools that you have attended textit{1 What evidence have we in our language that the Indians once inhabited places in this State where they no longer live? What languages were spoken in the New World before Columbus first visited it? What languages did Columbus speak textit{1 What language did his crew speak? How did they make the Indians understand them ? How were they able to understand the Indians? What evidence have we in our language that the Spaniards explored and settled different parts of our country? What evidence that the French, the Dutch, and the English did the same? What kind of knowledge has enabled you to answer all these questions correctly? Students should read those chapters of English history which deal with the four great invasions of England (Britain), the Roman, the Saxon, the Danish, the Norman French, for the purpose of discovering the elements that finally uni...