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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.) 20 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 12 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.) 7 1 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
mmar and reader, but in the seventies and the eighties his publications dealt chiefly with English usage, to the elucidation of which he brought vast accumulations derived from his enormous reading. His Recent Exemplifications of false philology (1872), though it incidentally bowls over Landor. Coleridge, and De Quincy, fulminates chiefly against Richard Grant White, and his Modern English (1873) returns to the attack, once more leading up to White through Cicero, Sir John Cheke, Bentley, Swift, Dr. Johnson, and others who have laboured under the delusion that usage needs to be fixed in order to save a language from corruption. Wherever Hall attacks White he routs him. Yet the actual influence of White has probably been greater, and this not without reason. Hall often adopts a tone of personal vituperation which antagonizes while it amuses. His own crabbed sentences go far to exasperate even a reader who must needs respect his scholarship. White, though he tried to schoolmaster
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
, James, 430 Sultan of Sulu, the, 289 Sumner, Charles, 115-117, 126, 346, 350, 415 Sumner, William G., 355, 363, 440 Sun (N. Y.), 324 Sun and saddle Leather, 161 Sun dance, 616 Sun-day hymn, 499 Supernatural origin of Christianity, the, 208 Superstition and force, 194 Supplement (to Webster's Dictionary), 477 Surf, 275, 276 Surry of eagle's Nest, 67 Survey, 333 Susan Lenox, 94 Sutter, John A., 140, 145 Swallow Barn, 67 Swan, James, 429 Swedenborg, 100 Swift, 475 Swimming Coffin, the, 601 Swinburne, 54, 97, 107 Swinton, William, 181 Swords, James, 537 Swords, Thomas, 537 Sylvis, W. H., 344 Synopsis (Webster), 476 Syntax of classical Greek, 466 Syntax of the moods and tenses of the Greek verb, 465 Syria from the saddle, 165 Systematic theology, 201 Tablets, 528, 529 Tacitus, 463 Taft, W. H., 166 Taggart, F. J., 146 Taine, 75, 258 Taittiriya Praticakhya, 468 Tale of a lonely parish, a, 88 Tales (Fi