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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 18 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 12 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 7 5 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 4 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 4 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 2 0 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
hose days. His specialty was English grammar,--at least he made it so with his pupils,--and he was the most intelligent teacher of the English language I ever knew. He saw to it that we were thoroughly versed in the rules, and explained the difficulties of construction of our language with great clearness, so that even I, the youngest, understood them. His favorite exercise was parsing. We used very different text-books then, from those now in use. Among them were Pope's Essay on man and Cowper's Task, and I remember I got my first feeling of hostility to slavery from being called upon to parse a half page beginning Is India free, or do we grind her still? Our teacher taught us to construe verse,--that is, to render it into prose, so as to show the grammatical construction of the parts. There was a sort of constructiveness about that putting of verse into prose which chimed in with my love of putting things together; and I became quite an adept. I speak of this because an inci