Green cloth with elaborate embossed spine and cover decorations. All edges rubbed, fray to head and heel of spine, tips of corners rubbed and bumped, scuffing. Previous owner gift inscription to front endpaper. Text shows soil and thumb smudges throughout. A Course of Practical Lessons adapted for the use in high-schools and academies and in the lower classes of college. "The delightful Portia, in the "Merchant of Venice," says, "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces." This sentence, long ringing in the author's ears, has had its profound truth confirmed to him daily in his attempts to teach pupils rhetoric." (from the Preface). Seller Inventory # Z50914

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Title: A Text-Books of Rhetoric, Supplementing the ...

Publisher: Effingham Maynard & Co., New York

Publication Date: 1889

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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