Common School Literature English and American: With Several Hundred Extracts to Be Memorized (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Common School Literature English and American: With Several Hundred Extracts to Be Memorized

His was an age of turmoil, and it gave rise to no great author. It is celebrated in history on account of four great events I. The invention of printing, and its introduction into England by Caxton; 2. The Discovery of America; 3. The wars of the Roses; 4. The Protestant Reformation in England under Henry VIII.

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Excerpt from Common School Literature English and American: With Several Hundred Extracts to Be Memorized

One of the demands of the present day is "thin text-books;" and the demand is a reasonable one. Most subjects are too extensive to be mastered in all their details in the time that can be devoted to them in a preparatory course of study. What is required is a thorough knowledge of a few fundamental facts and principles in each branch, as a basis for future attainments. Hence the demand for small books, in which these facts and principles are given in clear and definite statements, unencumbered by unessential details. This is a "thin text-book" - very thin, considering its scope. It aims to give just such and so much literary information as is indispensable to the student; to show the growth of our literature through its various eras; to present a concise view of the lives and characters of its great representative authors; and to bring forth from the thought-treasures of our language a variety of literary gems for the enrichment of the mind of the student. The plan of the work is entirely new.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.