Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...however, that the hearer-, r reader shall diseover? What name is given to this species of ridicule? What is said of its effect? Rope-it the Quoted specimen of ironical ridicule. Oh listen with attention most profound Her voice is but the shadow of a sound. And help oh help her spirits are so dead Onc hand searce lifts the other to her head. If there a stubborn pin it triumphs o'er. She pants-she sinks away and is no more. Let the robust and the gigantic earve'-Life is not worth eo much she'd rather starve But chew she must herself ah cruel fate That Rosalinda can't by proxy eat.--Youuo. THE PROFOUND WHITER. "By these methods in a few weeks there starts up many n writer capable of managing the profoundet and most universal subjects For what though his head be empty provided his common-place book be full And if you will bate him but the circumstances of method and Btyle and grammar and invention allow him but the common privileges of transeribing from others and digressing from himself as often as he shall see oecasion he will desire no more ingredients towards fitting up a treatise that shall make a very comely figure on a bookseller's shelf there to be preserved ncat and clean for a long eternity adorncd with the heraldry of its title fairly inseribed on a label ncver to be llmmbed or greased by students nor bound to everlasting chains of darkncss in a hbrary but when the fullncss of time is come shall happily undergo the trial of purgatory in order to aseend thr eky.--Swift. i.. LESSON XLVII. FIGURES OF ORTHOGRAPHY, ETYMOLOGY, AND SYNTAX. 814. Figures are intentional deviations from the ordinary spelling, form, construction, or application of words. They arc arranged in four classes; figures of orthography, figures of etymology, ..."
