Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Language Arts Lessons for Grades K - Eight Focusing on Composition and Art

Title School Work, Volume 1 Authors Leon W. Goldrich, Olivia Mary Jones Publisher The Editors of School Work, 1902 Click here.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

English Spoken and Written: Lessons in Language, Literature, and Composition/Google Books

Title English Spoken and Written: Lessons in Language, Literature, and Composition Book 2
Authors Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida C. Bender
Publisher Macmillan, 1908 Click here .
Table of Contents
Plan of the book's three parts.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Dictation Day by Day: A Modern Speller/Google Books

Title Dictation Day by Day: A Modern Speller
Author Kate Van Wagenen
Publisher Macmillan Co., 1909
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The Advanced Reader/Google Books

Title The Advanced Reader(middle school and up)
Nelson's School Series
Publisher T. Nelson and Sons, 1866
Length 400 pages
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Page 9:

PLEASURES OF KNOWLEDGE.

It is Noble to seek Truth, and it is Beautiful to find it. It is the ancient feeling of the human heart, that knowledge is better than riches; and it is deeply and sacredly true. To mark the course of human passions as they have flowed on in the ages that are past; to see why nations have risen, and why they have fallen; to speak of heat, and light, and the winds; to know what man has discovered in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; to hear the chemist unfold the marvellous properties that the Creator has locked up in a speck of earth; to be told that there are worlds so distant from our own, that the quickness of light, travelling from the world's creation, has never yet reached us; to wander in the creations of poetry, and grow warm again with that eloquence which swayed the democracies of the Old World; to go up with great reasoners to the First Cause of all, and to perceive, in the midst of all this dissolution and decay and cruel separation, that there is one thing unchangeable, indestructible, and everlasting;—it is worth while in the days of our youth to strive hard for this great discipline; to pass sleepless nights for it; to give up for it laborious days; to spurn for it present pleasures; to endure for it afflicting poverty; to wade for it through darkness, and sorrow, and contempt, as the great spirits of the world have done in all ages and all times.

Friday, March 9, 2012

The School and Family Primer/Google Books

Title The School and Family Primer
Harper's school and family series
Author Marcius Willson
Publisher Harper & brothers, 1860
Length 48 pages
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The First-Fifth Reader, Volume 4(Middle School)/Google Books


Title The First-Fifth Reader, Volume 4
Author Marcius Willson
Publisher Harper, 1860
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Sunday, March 4, 2012

The Boston Tea Party, and Other Stories of the American Revolution, Relating Many Daring Deeds of the Old Heroes/Google Books

Title The Boston Tea Party, and Other Stories of the American Revolution, Relating Many Daring Deeds of the Old Heroes
Author Henry Clay Watson
Publisher Lee and Shepard, 1889
Length 222 pages
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Letters from Egypt to Plain Folks at Home/Google Books


Title Letters from Egypt to Plain Folks at Home
Author Mary Louisa Whately
Published 1879
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Saturday, March 3, 2012

Natural History in Anecdote: Illustrating the Nature, Habits, Manners and Customs of Animals, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, ect./Google Booksn


Title Natural History in Anecdote: Illustrating the Nature, Habits, Manners and Customs of Animals, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, ect.
Editor Alfred Henry Miles
Publisher Dodd, Mead & company, 1895
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