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Descriptive writing.

A desk-book of twenty-five thousand words frequently mispronounced,embracing English words, foreign terms, Bible names, personal names, geographical names, and proper names of all kinds current in literature, science, and the arts, that are of difficult pronunciation, carefully pronounced, annotated, and concisely defined and indicating the preferences of the leading dictionaries from 1732 to 1924

The destruction of Troy.Being the sequel of the Iliad. Translated from the Greek of Tryphiodorus. With notes. By J. Merrick ...

Development of English literature and language

Development of English literature and language,

Development of English literature and language.

The development of Milton's prosody

The development of standard English speech in outline,

Dictation exercises

Dictation exercises to accompany Atwood's language tablets ...

Diction for singers and composers,

Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicumor, a general English dictionary, comprehending a brief, but emphatical and clear explication of all sorts of difficult words, that derive their Original from other Ancient and Modern Languages; as also, of all Terms relating to Arts and Sciences, both Liberal and Mechanical, viz. Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Physick, Surgery, Anatomy, Chymistry, Pharmacy, Botanicks, Mathematicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, Logick, Musick, Heraldry, Maritime Affairs, Military Discipline, Traffick, Husbandry, Gardening, Handicrafts, Confectionery, Cookery, Horsemanship, Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing, &c. To which is Added, A Large Collection of Word's and Phrases, as well Latin as English, made use of in our Ancient Statutes, Old Records, Charters, Writs, and Processes at Law, never before publish'd in so Small a Volume: Besides an Interpretation of the proper Names of Men and Women, and several other Remarkable Particulars mentioned in the Preface. The Whole Work Compil'd, and Methodically Digested, for the Benefit of Young Students, Tradesmen, Artificers, Foreigners, and others, who are desirous thoroughly to understand what they Speak, Read, or Write. By John Kersey, Philobibl.

Dictionarium Britannicumor a more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant. Containing Not only the words and their Explication; but their Etymologies from the antient British, Teutonick, Dutch Low and High, Old Saxon, German, Danish, Swedish, Norman and Modern French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, &c. each in its proper Character. Also Explaining hard and technical Words, or Terms of Art, in all the Arts, Sciences, and Mysteries following. Together with Accents directing to their proper Pronuntiation, shewing both the Orthography, and Orthoepia of the English Tongue, Viz. in Agriculture, Algebra, Anatomy, Architecture, Arithmetick, Astrology, Astronomy, Botanicks, Catoptricks, Chymistry, Chiromancy, Chirurgery, Confectionary, Cookery, Cosmography, Dialling, Dioptricks, Ethicks, Fishing, Fortification, Fowling, Gardening, Gauging, Geography, Geometry, Grammar, Gunnery, Handicrafts, Hawking, Heraldry, Horsemanship, Hunting, Husbandry, Hydraulicks, Hydrography, Hydrostaticks, Law, Logick, Maritime and Military Affairs, Mathematicks, Mechanicks, Merchandize, Metaphysicks, Meteorology, Navigation, Opticks, Otacousticks, Painting, Perspective, Pharmacy, Philosophy, Physick, Physiognomy, Pyrotechny, Rhetorick, Sculpture, Staticks, Statuary, Surveying, Theology, and Trigonometry. Illustrated with near Five Hundred Cuts, for Giving a clear Idea of those Figures, not so well apprehended by verbal Description. Likewise A Collection and Explanation of English Proverbs; also of Words and Phrases us'd in our ancient Charters, Statutes, Writs, Old Records and Processes at Law. Also The Iconology, Mythology, Theogony, and Theology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c. being an Account of their Deities, Solemnities, either Religious or Civil, their Divinations, Auguries, Oracles, Hieroglyphicks, and many other curious Matters, necessary to be understood, especially by the Readers of English Poetry. To which is added, A Collection of Proper Maroes of Persons and Places in Great-Britain, &c. with their Erymologies and Explications. The Whole digested into an Alphabetical Order, not only for the Information of the Ignorant, but the Entertainment of the Curious; and also the Benefit of Artificers, Tradesmen, Young Students and Foreigners. A Work useful for such as would Understand what they Read and Hear, Speak what they Mean, and Write true English. The second edition with numerous additions and improvements. By N. Bailey, Assisted in the mathematical part by G. Gordon; in the botanical by P. Miller, and in the etymological, &c. by T. Lediard, Gent. Professor of the Modern Languages in Lower Germany.

Dictionary of derivations; or, An introduction to etymology on a new plan.

The dictionary of distinctions,in three alphabets, containing, I. Words the same in sound, but of different spelling and signification; with which are classed such as have any similarity in sound. II. Words that vary in pronunciation and meaning as accentuated or connected. III. The changes, in sound and sense, produced by the addition of the letter e ... Occasionally interspersed with critical remarks, chiefly philological. With appendix ...

A dictionary of English etymology.

The dictionary of English inflected words, with the syllabication of all the words according to a system founded on well-defined principles;and the system of syllabication as applied to poetry and the scansion of verse. Forming Part II of The handy English word book.

A dictionary of English rhymes,

A dictionary of hymnology, setting forth the origin and history of Christian hymns of all ages and nations ...

A dictionary of the English language,answering at once the purposes of rhyming, spelling, and pronouncing. On a Plan not hitherto attempted. In which, I. The whole Language is arranged according to its Terminations. II. Every Word is explained and divided into Syllables exactly as pronounced. III. Words liable to a Double Pronunciation are fixed in their True Sound, by a Rhyme. IV. Many Words of established Usage, not to be found in our best Dictionaries, are inserted, and more technical Terms than in any Dictionary, except Chambers's. To which is prefixed A copious Introduction to the various Uses of the Work, with critical and practical Observations on Orthography, Syllabication, Pronunciation, and Rhyme; And for the purposes of poetry is added an index of allowable rhymes. With Authorities for their Usage from our best Authors. By J. Walker, Author of the General Idea of a Pronouncing Dictionary.

A dictionary of the English language.With an alphabetical account of the heathen deities; and a list of the cities, towns, Boroughs, and remarkable Villages, in England and Wales. To which is prefixed a comprehensive view of English Grammar.

A dictionary of the English language:in which the words are deduced from their originals, explained in their different meanings, and authorized by the names of the writers in whose works they are found.

A dictionary, English and Hindoostanee,in which the words are marked with their distinguishing initials; as Hinduwee, Arabic, and Persian. Whence the Hindoostanee or what is Vulgarly, but Improperly, called the Moor Language, is evidently formed. By John Gilchrist. In two parts. Part I.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus On literary composition,being the Greek text of the De compositione verborum,

A discourse delivered in the Theatre at Oxford, in the Senate-house at Cambridge, and at Spring-garden in London

A discourse of English poetrieTogether, with the authors iudgment, touching the reformation of our English verse. By VVilliam VVebbe. Craduate [sic].

A discourse of English poetrie. :1586 ...

A discourse upon Gondibertan heroick poem

Disguise plots in Elizabethan drama;a study in stage tradition,

A dissertation on letters, and the principles of harmony, in poetic and prosaic compositionCollected from some of the best writers. [Two lines in Latin from Quintillian].

A dissertation on reading the classics,and forming a just style. Written in the year 1709. And addressed to the Right Honourable John Lord Roos, The Present Duke of Rutland. By Henry Felton, D. D. Principal of Edmund-Hall, Oxon, and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Rutland.

A dissertation on romance and minstrelsy.

A dissertation on the causes of the difficulties, which occur, in learning the English tongue.With a scheme for publishing an English grammar and dictionary, upon a plan entirely new. The object of which shall be, to facilitate the attainment of the English tongue, and establish a perpetual standard of pronunciation. Addressed to a certain noble lord.

A dissertation on the languages, literature and manners of eastern nations.Originally prefixed to a dictionary Persian, Arabic, and English. By John Richardson, Esq. F. S. A. of the Middle Temple, and of Wadham College, Oxford.

Dissertation on the principles of human eloquenceWith particular regard to the style and composition of the New Testament. In Which The Observations on this Subject by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, in his Discourse on the Doctrine of Grace are distinctly considered. Being The Substance of several Lectures read in the Oratory-School of Trinity-College, Dublin. The second edition; corrected and amended by the author, Dr. Thomas Leland. To which is added, a letter to the Rev. Dr. Thomas Leland, To which is added, A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Thomas Leland, in which the Dissertation is Criticized. Also, an answer to the above Letter.

A dissertation on the principles of human eloquenceWith Particular Regard to the Style and Composition of the New Testament. In which The Observations on this Subject by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, in his Discourse on the Doctrine of Grace, are distinctly considered. Being The Substance of several Lectures read in the Oratory-School of Trinity-College, Dublin. By Thomas Leland, D.D.