Questions: Adapted to Whelpley's Compend of History (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Questions: Adapted to Whelpley's Compend of History

Compends of History are sometimes written in the form of catechism. And this method has certainly very considerable advantages. But it is perhaps impossible to write a Compend in this form, of any considerable length, which will not be found extremely dry and uninteresting, unless the answers are so long, as to lose the advantages of this form.

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Excerpt from Questions: Adapted to Whelpley's Compend of History

District of Massachusetts, to wit:

District Clerk's Office.

Be It Remembered, That on the twenty-first day of June, A. D. 1825, and in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Richardson and Lord, of the said District, have deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

"Questions, adapted to Whelpley's Compend of History. By Joseph Emerson, Principal of the Female Seminary at Wethersfield, Con.

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John W. Davis,

Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

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