Purity of Style . ..

Grammatical Errors . . . .

Grammatical Errors in the use of

Pronouns . . . . .

Grammatical Errors in the use of Verbs

Grammatical Errors in the use of Par-

ticiples . . . . .

Grammatical Errors in the use of Ad.

jectives . . . . .

Grammatical Errors in the use of Nega.

tive and Disjunctive Particles .

Foreign Idioms . . . . .

EXERCISES ON THE RULES OF ENGLISH

Syntax . . . . .

PROPRIETY OF Style . . .

RECISION O

TYLE

Precision or Style : . .

SYNONYMOUS Words . . .

THE STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES .

CLEARNESS AND PRECISION IN THE

STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES . .

HARMONY IN THE STRUCTURE OF SEN-

TENCES . .

. .

TENCES

99

LEGORY

Allegory . . . . . . 160

The CONCISE AND the Diffuse STYLE 163

The Method of ATTAINING A GOOD

Style . . . . . . 211

List of SUBJECTS SUITABLE FOR Essays 215

EXAMPLES ILLUSTRATING THE PROGRESS OF

English Style.

Roger ASCHAM . . 217 | Daniel Defoe, . 233

Sir Walter Raleigh 218 JONATHAN Swift . 23.1

RICHARD HOOKER . 219 ANTHONY ASIILEY

Francis Bacon. . 220

Cooper, Earl of

SHAFTESBURY . . 235 ·

Ben Jonson . . 221

Thomas Hobbes

Joseph Addison. . 236

. 221

Sir Richard Steele 239

WILLIAM CUILLING-

WORTH . . . 2

Henry St. John, Vis-

COUNT BOLINGBROKE 240

Sir Thomas BROWNE 223

Alexander Pope . 241

Edward Hyde, Earl

of CLARENDON . 224

JOSEPH BUTLER,

Bishop of DURHAM 242

John MILTON . . 225

.243

Jeremy Taylor .

Samuel JOHNSON

. 226

JUNIUS . . . 244

ABRAHAM Cowley . 2

David HUME . . 245

John BUNYAN . .227

Laurence Sterne • 246

Sir William Temple,

Bart. . . . 228

TOBIAS Smollett . 247

ISAAC Barrow . .229

William Robertson. 248

JOHN TILLOTSON, Archi-

Oliver GoldsmITH 250

BISHOP OF CANTER-

Thomas Warton

BURY . . . 230 EDMUND Burke. . 251

John Dryden . . 231 | EDWARD GIBBON . 252

Samuel Pepys . . 232 Sir Walter Scott . 253

INSON

Charles LAMB . . 254 | Hugh Miller . . 266
WASHINGTON IRVING . 256 Edward George Bul-
Thomas De Quincey 257 wer (Lord) LYTTON 268
Thomas Carlyle . 259 CHARLES Dickens · 270
THOMAS BABINGTON

| Charles KingSLEY271
(LORD) MACAULAY. 265 | John Ruskin . . 272

TON

220

The Scholemaster-Roger Ascham . . . 217

The Historie of the World—Sir Walter Raleigh 218

OF THE LAWES OF ECCLESIASTICALL Politie-

Richard Hookcr . . . . . . 219

Two Bookes of the PROFICIENCE AND ADVANCE-

MENT OF LEARNING, DIVINE AND HUMANE-

Francis Bacon . . . .

Jonson's Discoveries-Ben Jonson . . . 221

Humane Nature; OR THE FUNDAMENTAL ELE-

ments of PolicY—Thomas Hobbes . . . 221

The ReligioN OF PROTESTANTS A Safe WAY TO

SALVATION–William Chillingworth . . . 222

Religio Medici—Sir Thomas Browne . . .223

History Of The Rebellion AND Civil Wars

IN ENGLAND-Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon 224

AREOPAGITICA- John Milton . . . . . 225

God's Mercr—Jeremy Taylor . . . . 226

Discourses BY WAY OF ESSAYS IN Verse and

Prose--Abraham Cowley · ... · · 226

Pilgrim's Progress-John Bunyan . . . 227