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English 
 As She is Taught, 
 
" A DARLING literary curiosity The collection is 
 
 ■**■ made by a teacher .... and all the examples in it are 
 genuine ; none of them have been tampered with, or doctored 
 in any way." 
 
 — Mark Twain, in the Century for April, 1887 
 
€tnglish 
 
 3he • is • taught 
 
 ' GENUINE ANSWERS TO EXAMINATION QUESTIONS 
 IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 COLLECTED BY 
 
 CAROLINE B. Le ROW. 
 
 CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited, 
 739 & 741 Broadway, New York. 
 
ia)UCATIOK LIBS. 
 
 Copyright, 
 1887, 
 By O. M. DUNHAM 
 
 Pr.M W. L. Mershon & Co., 
 Rah way, N. J, 
 
 
English as She is Taught. 
 
 iDUC \ 
 LIBRARY ' 
 
 V 
 
 Dr. Blimber's establishment was a great hot- 
 house in which there was a forcing apparatus 
 incessamtly at work. All the boys blew before 
 their time. Mental green peas were produced 
 at Christmas and intellectual asparagus all the 
 year round. Mathematical gooseberries (very 
 sour ones) were common at untimely seasons 
 and from mere sprouts of bushes under 
 Dr. Blimber's cultivation. Every description 
 of Greek and Latin vegetable was got off 
 the dryest twigs of boys under the frostiest 
 circumstances. Nature was of no consequence 
 at all. No matter what a ypung gentleman 
 
 938 
 
vi Eiiglish as She is Taught. 
 
 was intended to bear Dr. Blimber made 
 him bear to pattern. But the system of 
 forcing was attended with its usual disadvan- 
 tages. There was not the right taste about 
 the premature productions and they didn't 
 keep well. When poor Paul had spelt out No. 
 2 he found he had no idea of No. i, fragments 
 whereof afterwards obtruded themselves into 
 No. 3 which slided into No. 4 which grafted 
 itself on to No. 2 ; so that whether twenty 
 Romuluses made a Remus, or a verb always 
 agreed with an ancient Briton, or three times 
 four was Taurus a bull, were open questions 
 with him. But however high and false the 
 temperature at which Dr. Blimber kept his hot- 
 house, the owners of the plants were always 
 ready to lend a helping hand at the bellows 
 and to stir the fire. 
 
 Dombey and So?i. — Charles Dickens. 
 
English as She is Taught. 
 
 Vll 
 
 P r efa c e . 
 
 vS tlic greatest compliment that could 
 be paid a ivriter would be tJie assiiinp- 
 tion that the material contained in 
 this little volume was the product of that 
 writer s ingenuity or imagination, it seems 
 needless for the compiler to state that every line 
 is just what it purports to be, — bona fide answers 
 to questions asked in the p^iblic schools. 
 
 Mark Tivain, zvith his inimitable drollery. 
 
viii ■ English as She is Taught. 
 
 comments in the CENTURY MAGAZINE /<?r April, 
 1887, upon English as She is Taught. 
 Even this master of English humor acknowledges 
 his inability to comprehend how such success in 
 the literature of fun could be attained, not only 
 without effort or intention, but through heroic 
 struggles to set forth hard facts a7id sober 
 statistics. 
 
English as She is Taught. 
 
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 PAG«. 
 
 I. 
 
 Etymological, 
 
 
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 II. 
 
 Grammatical, 
 
 
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 III. 
 
 Mathematical, 
 
 
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 . i8 
 
 IV. 
 
 Geographical, 
 
 
 
 31 
 
 V. 
 
 Original, 
 
 
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 . 30 
 
 VI. 
 
 Analytical, 
 
 
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 43 
 
 VII. 
 VIII. 
 
 Historical, 
 Intellectual. 
 
 
 • 
 
 53 
 67 
 
 IX. 
 
 Philosophical, 
 
 
 
 . 89 
 
 X. 
 
 Physiological, 
 
 
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 93 
 
 XI. 
 
 Astronomical, 
 
 
 
 . 100 
 
 XII. 
 
 Political, . 
 
 
 . 
 
 103 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Musical, . 
 
 
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 . 105 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Oratorical, 
 
 
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 106 
 
 XV. 
 
 Metaphysical, 
 
 
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 . 108 
 
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 Rnglish as She is Taught, 
 
 I. 
 
 Etymological. 
 
 Aborigines — a system of mountains. 
 Aboriginal — what was original before. 
 Aboriginate — to settle down in a place. 
 Alias — a good man in the Bible. 
 Alienate — to put together. 
 
 to make a citizen of. 
 
 to make a foreigner. 
 
 to live in another country except 
 your own. 
 
English as She is Taught. 
 
 Amenable — any thing that is mean. 
 Ammonia — the food of the gods. 
 Animosity — a sudden surprise. 
 
 kindness. 
 
 thoughtfullness. 
 
 an emblem or sign. 
 
 great liveliness. 
 Aristocracy — to be stuck up. 
 Armistice — one who takes part in battle. 
 Asphyxia — a grumbling fussy temper. 
 Assiduity — state of being an acid. 
 Audible — worthy of applause. 
 Auriferous — giving light from yourself. 
 
 pertaining to an orifice. 
 
 Beneficence — a state of insanity. 
 Burglarize — to make burglars. 
 
 Capillary — a little caterpiller. 
 Cassowary — a kind of dromedary. 
 Centaur — a three legged animal. 
 Conjugate — to all wrinkle up. 
 
English as She is Taught. 
 
 Conservative — a person interested in politics 
 who does not like Mr. Glad- 
 stone. 
 
 Corniferous — rocks in which fossil corn is 
 found. 
 
 Crosier — a staff carried by the Deity. 
 
 Culinary — cunning or cute. 
 
 Delineate — to deface. 
 
 to make lean. 
 Demagogue — a vessel containing beer and 
 other liquids. 
 
 Egregious — the art of learning, 
 feeding on flocks. 
 a good many sheep together. 
 Emissary — a foreign missionary. 
 Emolument — a softening. 
 a structure, 
 a great increase, 
 a headstone to a grave. 
 Epicac — a man who likes a good dinner 
 
Ejiglish as She is Taught. 
 
 Equanimity — evenness of time, 
 carefullness. 
 being equal all round. 
 Equestrian — an equal. 
 
 a competetor. 
 one who asks questions, 
 one who walks on foot. 
 Erudition — act of wiping out. 
 
 state of being erude. 
 Espionage — a kind of cabbage. 
 Eucharist — one who plays euchre. 
 Exhilarate — pertaining to happiness. 
 
 Franchise — any thing belonging to the French. 
 Freebooter — a man three feet high. 
 
 Idolater — a very idol person. 
 
 Ignition — the art of not noticing. 
 
 Impetuosity — to get into a pet. 
 
 Implacable — not able to be placed. 
 
 Ingratiating — grating up the ear. 
 
 Interloper — one who runs away to get married. 
 
English as She is Taught. 
 
 Irrigate — to disturb. 
 
 to turbulate. 
 
 to make fun of. 
 
 to emit sparks. 
 
 to contest in law. 
 
 to ask in return. 
 
 to dispense with justice. 
 
 Knickerbocker — something to ring with. 
 
 Matins — something to wear on the feet. 
 Medieval — a wicked man who has been 
 
 tempted. 
 Mediocrity — the science of the Medes. 
 Mendacious — what can be mended. 
 Mercenary — relating to money matters. 
 
 one who feels for another. 
 
 hostile to life. 
 
 one living on charity. 
 
 one who suffers. 
 
 pertaining to the eye. 
 
 relating to habits. 
 
 strong, bold, brave. 
 
English as She is Taught. 
 
 Mercenary — one who delivers a message. 
 
 one who sets on fire with hostile \ 
 intent. 
 
 Miscellaneous — all mixed up. ] 
 
 Munificence — waste. i 
 
 thanksgiving. j 
 
 brightness. i 
 
 great wealth. j 
 
 a tragedy. j 
 
 a beautiful city. \ 
 
 Non-conformist — a decenter of ancient times. • 
 
 Ominous — power to be all present. ; 
 
 power to eat all things. ' 
 
 Parasite — a sort of bird. \ 
 
 one who speaks well. j 
 
 an example. j 
 
 a kind of umbrella. | 
 
 the murder of an infant. 
 
 Party-colored — a fine kind of a dress to wear j 
 to a ball. 
 
 Pennyroyal — relating to money. 
 
JEnglish as She is Taught. 
 
 Perennial — every seven years. 
 Plagarist — a writer of plays. 
 Plagarism — fire worship. 
 Prism — a prim precise person. 
 Publican — a man who does his prayers in 
 public. 
 
 Quarternions — a bird with a flat beak and no 
 bill living in New Zealand. 
 
 the name given to a style of 
 art practiced by the Phoeni- 
 cians. 
 
 a religious convention held 
 every hundred years. 
 
 Republican — a sinner mentioned in the Bible. 
 Reticence — tardy ness. 
 
 retirement. 
 
 a review. 
 
 something of the eye. 
 
 great slowness. 
 
 Satiate — to make tasty. 
 
 Sibilant — the state of being idiotic. 
 
8 English as She is Taught. J 
 
 i 
 Starveling — a small child who doesunt have i 
 
 enough to eat. 
 Subtlety — gentley. '. 
 
 profanity. , ', 
 
 brittleness. 
 
 softness. 
 
 vagueness. 
 
 easily coaxed. 
 
 light and airy. \ 
 
 is sprightness. - 
 
 a settlement. • 
 
 great doubtfullness. 
 
 stepping through easily. \ 
 
 state of being easy broken. ■ 
 
 Technology — according to the text. \ 
 
 a plagarism nearly obsolete, 
 something which teaches you to - 
 be very tecknical in your re- 
 marks. 
 
 Tenacious — ten acres of land. 
 
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 Vacillating — ticking like a pendulum. i 
 
English as SJie is Taught. 
 
 Vermicular — the intestines of a worm. 
 
 She is related to him by animosity. 
 
 A great many people alienate from their coun- 
 try to this. 
 
 The ring is quite an auriferous article. 
 
 He is a very auspicious boy. 
 
 She dresses very auspicious. 
 
 The belligerent powers receive a salary. 
 
 We call him a charger because he charges so 
 much. 
 
 Chronology is the science of the brane. 
 
 He had a chronic disease — something the mat- 
 ter with the chrone. 
 
 The coercion of some things is remarkable, as 
 bread and molasses. 
 
 We should never commiserate a person even if 
 we dislike them. 
 
 Her hat is contigitons because she wears it on 
 one side. 
 
 The girl was delineate in her work. 
 
 John said he would delineate the book. 
 
 The washwoman dilated t\\Q clothes. 
 
lo English as She is Taught. 
 
 He was totally dismasted with the whole per- 
 formance. 
 
 The officer is to be tried for dissertation of his 
 office. 
 
 The place was left in a state of dissertation. 
 
 He dominated or ruled the paper. 
 
 He is a great duplicate because so very deceitful. 
 
 The men marched out in an egregious proces- 
 sion. 
 
 He preached to an egregious congregation. 
 
 He gave a correct elimination of the word. 
 
 The captain eliminated a bullet through the 
 man's heart. 
 
 He stood on a high emissary. 
 
 There was a small emolument of water in the 
 vessel. 
 
 He was exhilarated to a better place. 
 
 We should endeavor to avoid extremes — like 
 those of wasps and bees. 
 
 You should fascinate the vine to the wall. 
 
 I have a gauzy hen at home. 
 
 He treated her with ignition because he did 
 not notice her. 
 
English as She is Taught. ii 
 
 The marriage was illegible. 
 
 They tried to imbecile the animal. 
 
 The leopard is watching his sheep. 
 
 I liquidate you from all blame. 
 
 John liquidated his bread with milk. 
 
 The strawberry crop was magnanimous. 
 
 The magnanimous of Milton was wonderful. 
 
 He has a very mental intellect. 
 
 He was a member of the mediocrity. 
 
 The child gave a mercenary account of the 
 accident. 
 
 She has just returned from the inerceiiary. 
 
 This examination makes me feel very nance- 
 ous. 
 
 The stomach contains nausea. 
 
 Her fright v^diS palliateable because it made her 
 pale. 
 
 The doctrine that like can be cured by like is 
 called panacea. 
 
 You will see how pecuniary he is when I tell 
 you he is going to marry for money. 
 
 The family is placed under pecuniary circum- 
 stances. 
 
12 English as She is Taught. 
 
 He was pecuniary or tight in his money mat- 
 ters. 
 
 lAy perennial 'i\x\\\<dw is due to-day. 
 
 The QdiYth. perennially revolves round the sun. 
 
 He enjoys riding on a philosopher. 
 
 You should take caution and ht precarious. 
 
 ThQ propensity of this room is very small. 
 
 She was very quick at repertoire. 
 
 A great many persons are quite resonant. 
 
 The naughty boy resources his mother. 
 
 People become full of retisense when they are 
 silent. 
 
 Minerals crystallize in rhododendrons. 
 
 You need not try to satiate my pathway. 
 
 She seceded the velvet to her dress. 
 
 The serfdom at Cony Island is very high. 
 
 The men employed by the Gas Company go 
 round and speculate the meter. 
 
 The sjipercilions girl acted with vicissitude 
 when \.\\^ perennial time came. 
 
 He prayed for the waters to subsidize. 
 
 The birds subsidize in the summer for the most 
 part on fruits. 
 
English as She is Taught. 13 
 
 He is a very tacit scholar because he is easily 
 
 taught. 
 He temporized \.\\Q. zinc nicely. 
 We ought to temporize our health. 
 The tenacious girl was good in church. 
 Herod was called a tetrarch because he was so 
 
 fond of tea. 
 There are a good many donkeys in theological 
 
 gardens. 
 Some of the best fossils are found in theologi- 
 cal cabinets. 
 The telescope is very tra^isparent because you 
 
 can see through it. 
 He landed safe on vice versa. 
 The earth makes a vicissitude around the sun 
 
 once a year. 
 They had a strawberry vestibule. 
 Zoology is interesting to those who like the 
 
 study of words. 
 
14 
 
 English as She is Taught. 
 
 II. 
 
 Grammatical 
 
 Capitals begin every line of Deity. 
 Capital letters begin at breviation. 
 At the beginning of every capital letters should 
 
 be used. 
 Capital is used at beginning of parigraf. 
 An interrogatt sentense must Begin with a 
 
 Capitel Letter. 
 A deceletive sentense ends with a perod. An 
 
 intorogative one ends with an intoroga- 
 
 tion point. 
 
English as She is Taught. 15 
 
 Every sentence and name of God must begin 
 with a caterpillar. 
 
 When you speak of yourself you should begin 
 it with a capital letter. 
 
 When they are going to say some prose or 
 poetry before they say the poetry or prose 
 they must put a semicolon just after the 
 introduction of the prose or poetry. 
 
 A quotion is something spoken by people. 
 
 A quotation is asking a question. 
 
 An Exclamation Point is what causes supprise. 
 
 Brackets set things off so they wont have any- 
 thing to do with the sentence. 
 
 Grammer is how to talk good. 
 
 Grammar gives us the languish. 
 
 We study Grammer to get the senses. 
 
 Grammer is to tell us the parts of speeth. 
 
 A common noun is small things. 
 
 A proper noun is peoples names. 
 
 A pronoun is a word when we cant get a noun. 
 
 A pronoun is a word which is just as good as a 
 noun. 
 
 The two kinds of Pronouns is I and O. 
 
1 6 English as She is Taught. 
 
 The plural is formed by turning book into 
 books. 
 
 Person in Grammer tells us whether he is a 
 man or a woman. It is always an animal 
 or something that isent alive. 
 
 Gender is the distinguishing nouns without re- 
 gard to sex. 
 
 A verb is something to eat. 
 
 An intransitiv verb expresses an act not done 
 to another as James did not strike John. 
 
 The Moods in English Gram, are the Indica- 
 tive, Potential, Subjugated, and Infinitif. 
 
 The optative mood is a mood in a verb when 
 any body knows you have done any thing. 
 
 The sign if shows the potative mood. 
 
 Adverbs should always be used as adjectives 
 and adjectives as adverbs. 
 
 The horses xmw fastly. This is an adverb. 
 
 The comparative degree expresses that one 
 thing is up higher than another and the 
 Supulative is the highest of all. 
 
 A dependent sentence is one that hangs from 
 its clause. 
 
English as She is Taught. 17 
 
 All sentences are either simple or confound. 
 To conjugate a sentence is to tell all the things 
 
 that it means. 
 The word governed by another word is called 
 
 its regiment. 
 Rhythm is a horse trotting on a road. 
 Rhyme makes two words sound just alike. 
 A figure means something different from what 
 
 it says. 
 Can in poetry is sometimes used for cant. 
 Prose tells things that are true right along just 
 
 as they are and poetry makes it up as you 
 
 go along. 
 
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 English as She is Taught. 
 
 III. 
 
 Mathematical. 
 
 Arithmetic is the signs of numbers. 
 
 A factor is a number which divided by another 
 
 number equals the number of parts. 
 A Prim Facktor is a Factor that stands for a 
 
 Facter. 
 The sins of Division are a short horizontail 
 
 line between two doits and a curve line 
 
 between the Deviser and Divident. 
 The sines of Division will be like the quo- 
 
 cient. 
 
English as She is Taught. 19 
 
 Multiplication is the process of takeing one or 
 
 more many times to multiply the produck 
 
 if the work is write. 
 A common fraction is made up of two parts 
 
 with a separation between them. 
 A vulgar fraction has one fraction over the 
 
 line and the other under it. 
 The Denomator is the bottom of the fraction. 
 
 The Numerator tells how many there are 
 
 in it. 
 A Decimal Fraction is one with a point. 
 A straight line is any distance between two 
 
 places. 
 Parallel lines are lines that can never meet 
 
 until they run together. 
 A Horace uncle line is a line that isn't 
 
 crooked. 
 A circle is a round straight line with a hole in 
 
 the middle. 
 A hexameter is inscribed in a circle. 
 A foursided figure is a trapezium which is the 
 
 general name for a kite. 
 A parallelogram has all its sides parallel. 
 
20 
 
 English as She is Taught. 
 
 The base of a triangle is the sum of its two 
 
 sides. 
 Things which are equal to each other are equal 
 
 to anything else. 
 To find the number of square feet in a room 
 
 you multiply the room by the number of 
 
 the feet. The product is the result. 
 
English as She is Taught. 
 
 21 
 
 IV. 
 
 Geographical. 
 
 {American}) 
 
 The three natural divisions of America are 
 
 Europe, Ashea and Africa. 
 North America is separated by Spain. 
 The countries of North America are Brits- 
 
 chish, Washington, Canada Nina and 
 
 Mexica. 
 America is divided into the PassifTic slope and 
 
 the Mississippi valey. 
 America consists from north to south about 
 
 500 miles. 
 Amireca is in the torade zone. 
 
22 English as She is Taught. 
 
 The climit of America is very worm. 
 
 The climate of America is modrant — modern 
 
 in the middle. 
 The principle mountains of America are the 
 
 Alagany and on the cost range on the 
 
 eastern part all. 
 The Rocking Mountains are the graitest in 
 
 America. 
 The great Lakes of America is champagne. 
 The great lakes of America are Siperior, On- 
 
 tarria and Hurryon, Michigan. 
 The principal mts. of America are lamb beaf 
 
 veal. 
 The rivers of America are ohio Artie an 
 
 drandartic. 
 The United States is quite a small country 
 
 compared with some other countrys, but 
 
 is about as industrious. 
 The capital of the United States is Long Island. 
 One of the leading industries of the United 
 
 States is mollasses book-covers numbers 
 
 gas teaching lumber manufactures paper- 
 making publishers coal. 
 
English as She is Taught. 23 
 
 The chief products of the United States is 
 troupil freuts an tobacto. The climit has 
 2 sesons a rainey and a dry. 
 
 The names of states on the Gulf of Mexico is 
 United States. 
 
 The five seaports of the U. S. are Newfunlan 
 and Sanfrancisco. 
 
 The principal seaports is cotton wool shoes. 
 
 The principal cities of the United States are 
 Bath Lynn Lowell Lawrence. 
 
 The principal products of the U. S. is earth- 
 quakes and volcanoes. 
 
 The manufactured products of the United 
 States is fish and agriculture and imports. 
 
 The principle products of New England are 
 dairying shipbuilding wine coffee tropic 
 fruets and cloathes. 
 
 The exports of New England are lumbering 
 fishing ice cutting wood chopping. 
 
 The prinicpal sports of New England are cot- 
 ten tobaco ice. 
 
 The principal occupation of New England is 
 shipping goods. 
 
24 English as She is Taught. 
 
 Mineing is mostely carried on in new Englyn. 
 The climit of New English is hot worm and coal. 
 The coaste city's of New England are New 
 
 Haven and Seaport. 
 The coast cities of New England are Boston. 
 The Vermont state is south west of Mass. 
 The New London State is near the Meremack 
 
 River. 
 The principal mountain range in England is 
 
 Kartardin. 
 Providence is the leading commercial city of 
 
 New England situated on the Southern 
 
 part of the cost of Maine. 
 New York is bounded by Montreal. 
 The capital of New York is New Hamshire. 
 
 Its principle cities are Portland an Sus- 
 
 quehana. 
 Philadelphia is the capitol of New York and it 
 
 is in the south West Part. 
 Washenton is in the Northron part of New 
 
 York. 
 New York was once called the Emperor state 
 
 because it once had a Emperor. 
 
English as She is Taught. 25 
 
 Aduculung and Mineing is the chief industry 
 of New York State. 
 
 The Rocky Mountains are on the western side 
 of Philadelphia. 
 
 The Rocking Mountain is east of Mass. Algany 
 east of Rocky Sirranevada east of Al- 
 gany. 
 
 The Alaginnies are mountains in Phiia- 
 delfia. 
 
 The Arondack Mountains are north of Can- 
 ada. 
 
 The White Mountains are in England. 
 
 The Yosemity Valley is the highest mountain 
 in the world. 
 
 The Mississippi River runs soulth and empies 
 into Mexico. 
 
 Mason and Dixon's line is the Equater. 
 
 Cape Hatteras is a vast body of water sur- 
 rounded by land and flowing into the Gulf 
 of Mexico. 
 
 Canada is south of New York. 
 
 The City of Canada is Columbia in the westarn 
 part of Columbia. 
 
26 English as She is Taught. 
 
 Two cities in Canada are andruscogin and 
 
 kenibek. 
 Stock rason is the occupation of Canada. 
 The rapids of St. Lorence is caused by the 
 
 canoes of the Indianes. 
 British America is overturned by queen Vic- 
 
 torier. 
 Alasca is governed by the Britished America. 
 The productions of Central America is fish. 
 Vancoover is the North West United States. 
 Cuba and Newfoundland is Southeast of 
 
 America. 
 The climate of Mexico is very barren being hot 
 
 or cold. 
 California is the capitol of San Francisco. 
 The occupation of Greenland is speering the 
 
 seel. 
 The oppacation of the Greenland whisky 
 
 lemon bannanars. 
 The occupation of the people of Greenland 
 
 seals and the people of California gathrin 
 
 gold. 
 The people of Greenland people do seal fishing 
 
English as She is Taught. 27 
 
 and whailingof Alaska people are gathring 
 furs of the Indies people fishing and 
 shouting. 
 
 {European}^ 
 
 Charlemagne and Pepin were countries of 
 
 Austria. 
 In Austria the principal occupation is gathring 
 
 Austrich feathers. 
 France is parallel to America on a line running 
 
 east and west. 
 The Bay of Biscuit is on the coast of France. 
 The principal industries of Germany are manu- 
 facturing, agriculture, and the cultivation 
 
 of the intellect. 
 Germany has very little clubbable land. 
 Russia in the time of Peter the Great was a 
 
 very cold country and its inhabitants lived 
 
 in Siberia. 
 Russia is very cold and tyrannical. Boany 
 
 Airs is in Russia. 
 St. Petersburg is in the Gulf of Finland. 
 The Baltic Sea is between Sweden and Norway. 
 
28 English as She is Taught. 
 
 Portugal is separated from Spain by the Medi- 
 
 teranian Sea. 
 Sicily is one of the Sanwich Islands. 
 Constantinople is called the queen of the 
 
 Adriattic. 
 The Persian Gulf is the eastern part of Persia. 
 The Great Desert of Sarah was formerly dis- 
 covered in Africa. 
 The two most famous volcanoes of Europe are 
 
 Sodom and Gomorrah. 
 Terra del Fuego means Land of the Furies. 
 The Straits of Magellan separates North and 
 
 South America. 
 Hindoostan flows through the Ganges and 
 
 empties into the Mediterranean Sea. 
 No northwest passage has ever been discovered 
 
 around the Cape of Good Hope. 
 One of the chief exports of England is live 
 
 meat which grows in great quantities. 
 Ireland is called the Emigrant Isle because it 
 
 is so beautiful and green. 
 Gibraltar is an island built on a rock. It has 
 
 15,000 inhabitants. 
 
E?iglish as She is Taught. 29 
 
 The Straight of Mabel Manden seperates the 
 Rock of Gibralter from the ocean. 
 
 The width of the different zones Europe Hes in 
 depend upon the surrounding country. 
 
 The north tempered zone is the best one. 
 
 The frigide zone is the most liottest. 
 
 Latitude is a thing by which we can tell where 
 a country is on the globe, like Africa. 
 
 Latitude are supposed lines which pass hori- 
 zontally around the globe and longitude 
 are supposed lines which pass perpendicu- 
 larly in the same way from one circle to 
 another. 
 
 The imports of a country are the things that 
 are paid for. The exports are the things 
 that are not. 
 
 Pine apples grow on pine trees. 
 
 Climate lasts all the time and weather only a 
 few days. 
 
30 
 
 English as She is Taught. 
 
 V. 
 
 Original. 
 
 I was in Cony island. I was in the musium. 
 I saw a bear. I saw a gypsy. I saw a niger 
 man. 
 
 We go fishing every mourning. We get a big 
 basket full and do other lots of refresh- 
 ing things. 
 
 I expect to go to the country this summer 
 with my mothers and farthers. 
 
 I have had a lovely time the last three 
 
English as She is Taught. 31 
 
 weaks. I chop wood and bild fires and go 
 errents and have got two fire crackers saved up 
 for the forth of July. 
 
 I write a few Hnes to letter you know I am 
 a getin on. I went to a excurseon yester- 
 day and I went in barefoot and gethered 
 shels. 
 
 A Bird Story. 
 
 The little spring has built her nest in the 
 oke tree. Every mourning the mother bird 
 gets upearlyto find food for her nesterling sense 
 the April came. One day it rained and the 
 little burds sat and looked at the rain as it 
 flowed beneath their feet. 
 
 About the Birds, 
 
 The little birds are in there houses and rain 
 began to power and when the rain began to 
 stop the little flyed out and the little birds sat 
 up a tree of a bransh and then they churp and 
 
32 E?iglish as She is Taught. 
 
 some birds come to have a nice time when the 
 grass is green as green pante. 
 
 On Man. 
 
 Man is an animal that stands up. He is 
 not very big and he has to work for a living. 
 
 On Fashion. 
 
 Sensible people wear sensible fashions and 
 insensible people insensible fashions. 
 
 A Rainy Afternoon. 
 
 It rained hard so I could not go owdoors, so 
 I went out in the shed and sod some wood. 
 
 On the Cow. 
 
 The cow she eats the grass. Wen she eats 
 enought she will lie down in the shade. She is 
 generally chewing. This chewing is called 
 cud. The sheep has no upper Teeth. It 
 there for belongs to the Cow's Family. The cry 
 
English as She is Taught. 33 
 
 of a cow is called Low. Her youn of a Cow is 
 called a calf. The Cow gives us milk. Butter 
 and cheese are made out of bread. The flesh of 
 the Cow is called beef and the Calf veil. We 
 make from their skin shoes. The name of the 
 Cow is called Soldt lether. The name of the 
 calf is called calf-skin. 
 
 0)1 LatigJiter. 
 
 Laughter is something I know everybody 
 can do. Some people laugh until the tears 
 come from their eyes and then they have a 
 crying spell and then when that is over they 
 have a laughing spell. When people cry it 
 will make them look very peculiar so most 
 of people very seldom cry. It is the laughing 
 they generally do. 
 
 Oil Occupation. 
 
 I think if I should become a shoe manufac- 
 turer I should succeed as it is a very profitable 
 occupation and shoes are necessary to all classes 
 
34 English as She is Taught. 
 
 and consequently a large trade is a general 
 thing. 
 
 On Umbrellas. 
 
 The matereal at the top of an umbrella is 
 placed on a skeleton of whales which meet all 
 together in one place. They do be covered 
 with silk, alpaca and Satan. 
 
 On Indians, 
 
 Indians go out naked in the summer an 
 they take ahold of their scalp locks and cut off 
 the other side of their heads. They wear it on 
 .their sides. Indians food consists of corn and 
 food. They use smoking instead of tanning. 
 They paint their skind in the color of animals. 
 
 George Washington. 
 
 George Washington was the first president 
 of the United States born in Virginia in the 
 year. When George was a little boy he would 
 
Engl is Ji as She is Taught. 35 
 
 never tell a lie. Because he thought it was not 
 nice. It tis not nice nether. He studied all 
 kinds of things to be a president. 
 
 AbraJiani Lincoln. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln was born in Wales in 1599. 
 His father was a wool-comer, but Abraham did 
 not like that trade. One day Abraham was 
 standing on the railroad and a man by the 
 name of Guitue came behind and shot him. 
 Then he got put in jail for it. But it was not 
 nice of him because he shot him on the rail- 
 road. 
 
 On Reading. 
 
 Reading makes us intelligent ; and learn 
 about things we would otherwise hear nothing. 
 
 It is pleasant to recapitulate stories to per- 
 sons who probably have not had the opportu- 
 nity of reading themi and it therefore passes 
 many a dreary hour away and ,makes many a 
 person renew his happiness by hoping for such 
 
^6 English as She is Taught. 
 
 a favorable end as some characters as are 
 described in the book. 
 
 If we did not have the capacity of reading 
 we might wait all our lives and never secure 
 the desired information, but if instead of wait- 
 ing for some one to tell us we take the book or 
 paper or whatever it might happen to be and 
 read it for ourselves we will be much better 
 satisfied and also have the consolation of know- 
 ing we discovered it for ourselves and did not 
 have to wait for other people to come and fur- 
 nish us with the desired information. 
 
 In reading there is a large amount of knowl- 
 edge attained for it enlarged the mind while 
 reading and continues until we pass away. 
 
 When we read we come across words that 
 when we hear them spoken of we are entirely 
 ignorant of them. 
 
 The untutored mind is often surprisingly 
 
English as She is 7\iiight. 
 
 expanded in reading for only a short while a 
 little every day. Then when Ave hear certain 
 subjects spoken of w^e do not w^onder what it 
 all means. 
 
 Reading the talents of others helps us to 
 compose something that may help us in future 
 life. Without reading we should not know 
 any thing about our forefathers or how we came 
 to be civilized. What would we know about 
 religion if we did not read our Bible and find 
 out how religion originated ? 
 
 On Girls. 
 
 Girls are very stuckup and dignefied in their 
 maner and behaveyour. They think more of 
 dress than any thing and like to play with dowls 
 and rags. They cry if they see a cow in afar 
 distance and are afraid of guns. They stay at 
 ho;ne all the time and go to Church every 
 Sunday. They are al-ways sick. They are 
 al-ways funy and making fun of boys hands 
 
38 English as She is Taught. 
 
 and they say how dirty. They cant play mar- 
 bels. I pity them poor things. They make 
 fun of boys and then turn round and love them. 
 I dont beleave they ever kiled a cat or any 
 thing. They look out every nite and say oh 
 ant the moon lovely. Thir is one thing I have 
 not told and that is they always now their les- 
 sons bettern boys. 
 
 On Timidity of Woiiien. 
 
 Timidity is a disease very prevelent among 
 our American women. It is thought by them 
 to be an ornament to their charms. 
 
 How many young women faint by the sud- 
 den appearance of a rat from its hideing place. 
 Oh ! they do declare it's impossible to live 
 where these dreadful creatures make their 
 homes they ask Ma cant she and wont she 
 please to try to secure some remedy so they 
 can be destroyed. You will see the young 
 ladies leap up over stones and steps of great 
 height so as to escape the barks of the dog, it 
 
English as She is Taught. 39 
 
 they are walking with a friend of the male kind 
 they will cling to the masculine arm and 
 beseach him to walk so that she might loose 
 sight of that horrible creature known as a 
 dog. 
 
 I do think their cases of timidity that cannot 
 be governed such as cases of intemperance 
 fighting and death. We dont want to see any 
 man come along the street destitute of reason- 
 ing and come reeling suddenly by you. Also 
 the expectation of death when we see a 
 loved sister going away from a cherished 
 circle. 
 
 It cannot be endured, but I have no objec- 
 tions for these cases but the preceding ones are 
 ridiculous and I beseach you to reject it remem- 
 bering you shall have to undergo greater trials 
 than those related. 
 
 On Poverty. 
 
 How many persons possess it ! They are 
 persons whose poverty cannot be endured they 
 
40 English as She is Taught. 
 
 had enjoyed preceding years in wealth and by 
 some mishap in the family they became poor 
 and how can they endeavor to forget that time 
 when their happiness could not be ex- 
 pressed but now their troubles shall be dis- 
 covered. 
 
 Poverty is a case that cannot be hidden it 
 must be let known so that the possessors may 
 obtain condolence in some way. Places for 
 poor persons are not of much importance 
 for the care of them is not worth mention- 
 ing. 
 
 Some poor persons with a great deal of pov- 
 erty would rather walk from house to house in 
 search of some nourishment than inhabit those 
 institutions but what a number of times they 
 are driven from the door with the contemptu- 
 ousness of the rich how many slang words are 
 said to them. 
 
 If our comfortable friends should remember 
 those persons casting away food raiment and 
 apparel they would be less cases of poverty 
 and when sickness overtakes such persons lend 
 
Etiglish as She is Taught. 41 
 
 a helping hand their consciences would less 
 smite them. 
 
 On Politeness. 
 
 Politeness is to say and do the kindest way. 
 I think it is easier for girls to be polite than for 
 boys, but I am not sure as I have never been a 
 girl. Politeness is used in all parts of the 
 United States. 
 
 On the Play of Hamlet, 
 
 Hamlet was a young man very nervous. 
 He was always dressed in black because his 
 uncle had killed his father by shooting him in 
 his ear. He could not go to the theatre 
 because his father was dead so he had the actors 
 come to his house and play in the front parlor 
 and he learned them to say the words because 
 he thought he knew best how to say them. 
 And then he thought he'd kill the king but he 
 didn't. Hamlet liked Ophelia. He thought 
 she was a very nice girl but he didn't marry her 
 
42 English as She is Taught. 
 
 because she was going to be a nunnery. Ham- 
 let went to England but he did not like it very 
 much so he came home. Then he jumped 
 into Ophelia's grave and fought a duel with 
 her brother. Then he died. 
 
 Hamlet was exceedingly sensitiveness. He 
 denunciated his mother because she entered 
 the matrimonial condition and showed her 
 two photographs which he said one was Hes- 
 perus and one a satire. He made her experi- 
 ence great regret. He was engaged to Orphelia 
 but had to neglect her as he was obliged to 
 give his attentions to revenging his father's 
 death. His uncle was the murderer of his 
 father, Hamlet's father. He had a very mourn- 
 ful existence and was a great philosopher. 
 
English as She is Taught. 
 
 43 
 
 VI. 
 
 Analytical. 
 
 A balance of power " — making the poker 
 stand up straight in your hand. 
 
 Weeping birch " — the kind of stick that 
 makes you weep. 
 
 Eating cares " — troubles because you are 
 tired of eating. 
 
 Spoiler's hand " — your father's hand be- 
 cause he spoils you. 
 
 The balm of childhood " — what makes 
 children stop there crying. 
 
44 English as She is Taught, 
 
 *' He issued a papal bull" — the news written 
 on the board outside the office. 
 
 "I would that my tongue could utter" — 
 means its to much trouble to write out his 
 ideas. 
 
 Tell me not in mournful numbers, 
 " Life is but an empty dream ! " 
 
 For the soul is dead that slumbers, 
 And things are not what they seem. 
 Psalm of Life. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 
 
 The way we pass a lifetime is to us but as if 
 we were asleep and we do not remember all 
 that happens but the happy moments. When 
 we are dead then we see what we have done in 
 a different way. 
 
 -X- 
 % Hi 
 
 Don't say life is only an empty dream. If 
 
English as She is Taught. 45 
 
 our souls stop living and go to sleep it cannot 
 be so for we would die. The last thing we are 
 to attain to I think is the grave. 
 
 Hi 
 Hi Hi 
 
 Your the same as dead when your asleep and 
 things that are making you pleasant now will 
 one day make you sorry. 
 
 Hi 
 Hi Hi 
 
 Do not tell me that life is a dream, because 
 when I sleep things will not be like I think they 
 are. 
 
 Hi 
 Hi Hi 
 
 This means that you know without being 
 told in rymes, that life and soul shall die away 
 and be nothing. 
 
 Hi Hi 
 
 Don't tell me in sorrowful verses life is only 
 
46 English as She is Taught. 
 
 an illusion, the soul is wicked that slumbers, 
 and things are very deceitful. 
 
 The heights by great men reached and kept 
 
 Were not attained by sudden flight ; 
 But they while their companions slept 
 Were toiling upwards in the night. 
 The Ladder of St. Augustine. H. W. LoNGFELLOW. 
 
 Great men have not made flights very sud- 
 denly. They have slept with their companions 
 while they were toiling to keep the heights 
 they had attained. 
 
 Hi 
 
 * * 
 
 The heights that great men have kept out of 
 reach were not attained by means of sudden 
 flight. While their companions were sleeping 
 they were up at all hours of the toiling night. 
 
 In the lexicon of Youth, which fate reserves for a bright 
 manhood, there's no such word as Fail. 
 
 Richelieu. Edward Bulwer Lytton. 
 
 In the early days of youth which destiny 
 
English as She is Taught. 47 
 
 waits for a better chance, there is no such word 
 as fail. 
 
 The lexicon of youth which is fated for a 
 bright manhood, should never fail. 
 
 The sentence means, in the beginning of 
 youth the fate that is kept for a bright manhood 
 must not be a failure. 
 
 There was no such word as fail when I was 
 a boy, but now I am a man. 
 
 If you study while you are young your 
 knowledge will be preserved and you can not 
 fail. 
 
 The word fail never appears in the natural 
 
48 English as She is Taught. 
 
 teachings of youth and is kept for bright man- 
 hood. 
 
 In a youth's translation which is kept back 
 until a riper age, there is no such word which 
 says fail. 
 
 The youth who is in his lexicon and about 
 to spring into a bright manhood, the word fail 
 he knows not. 
 
 To fail is impossible for youth in the lexicon 
 which is reserved for it. 
 
 Alone, but with unbated zeal, 
 The horseman plied with scourge and steel ; 
 For jaded now and spent with toil, 
 Embossed with foam and dark with soil, 
 While every gasp with sobs he drew, 
 The laboring stag strained full in view. 
 
 The Lady of the Lake. SiR WALTER ScOTT. 
 
 The man who rode on the horse performed 
 the whip and an instrument made of steel alone 
 
English as She is Taught. 49 
 
 with strong ardor not diminishing, for, being 
 tired from the time passed with hard labor 
 overworked with anger and ignorant with 
 weariness, while every breath for labor he drew 
 with cries full of sorrow, the young deer made 
 imperfect who worked hard filtered \\\ sight. 
 
 To him who in the love of nature holds 
 Communion with her visible forms, she speaks 
 A various language. For his gayer hours 
 She has a smile and eloquence of beauty, 
 And she steals into his darker musings 
 With a mild and gentle sympathy that steals 
 Away their sharpness ere he is aware. 
 
 Thanantopsis. Wm. Cullen Bkyant. 
 
 The man who loves his nature he holds con- 
 nections with his form in a visible manner; he 
 speaks a different language for his lively hours. 
 Nature has a glad voice and smile and beauty. 
 He goes into his darker musings with a mild 
 and healing sympathy and not with a sorrowful 
 
50 English as She is Taught. 
 
 feeling that steals away their sharpness before 
 he is aware of it. 
 
 ■vr ^ 
 
 To him she speaks the love of nature and of 
 various languages, and she smiles with healing 
 sympathy and steals away his gayer hours and 
 eloquence of beauty that steals away their 
 sharpness before he knows of it. 
 
 Two angels guide 
 The path of man, both aged and yet young, 
 As angels are, ripening through endless years. 
 On one he leans : some call her Memory, 
 And some, Tradition ; and her voice is sweet 
 With deep mysterious accords : the other, 
 Floating above, holds down a lamp which streams 
 A light divine and searching on the earth. 
 Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, 
 Yet clings with loving cheek, and shines anew 
 Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp 
 Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked 
 But for Tradition ; we walk evermore 
 To higher paths, by brightening Reason's lamp. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. George Eliot. 
 
 Was it not for Tradition we would not travel 
 this far. We are still walking to brighter steps 
 
English as She is Taught. 51 
 
 by shining our brains. What little intellect 
 we have, if it was well shined, it might do a 
 great deal. 
 
 Man is guided by two spirits, evil and good, 
 and if the evil spirit (before he was a good one) 
 had been a good one, man would not have been 
 created. 
 
 Man's path guides two angels. One is old 
 and one is young. Ones names Memory and 
 one is Tradition. One floats round and hunts 
 for things on the earth. Memory clings to 
 the cheek and shines the lamp that Reason 
 holds. Tradition helps us to walk and we 
 brighten up Reason's lamp. 
 
 Hi 
 
 Hi Hi 
 
 Two great Powers or Forces guide men and 
 women in this world whether they be young or 
 
52 English as She is Taught. 
 
 old, and these powers are still growing through 
 numbers of years. • 
 
 
 We lean on Mearcy and Tradition. But 
 whatere it may be, the sound is sweet with 
 vast mysterious accords. Then Power or 
 Mearcy glares above us, and there looks down 
 upon us with extreme splendor. 
 
 Memory still shines reflecting that light our 
 senses tell us of, or that is within our brains, if 
 we have any. And I suppose we are all gifted 
 with a little. 
 
 Had an angel never committed sin, we never 
 would have been created and guarded by a 
 heavenly spirit. 
 
English as She is Taught. 
 
 SZ 
 
 VII. 
 
 HistoricaL 
 
 {American^ 
 
 Christopher Columbus went to sea untill he 
 was 14 years of age. He dreamed there was 
 a place named America and after much ad- 
 versity he finally discovered it. 
 
 Christopher Columbus was called the Father 
 of his Country. 
 
 Queen Isabella of Spain sold her watch and 
 chain and other millinery so that Columbus 
 could discover America. 
 
54 E?iglish as She is Taught. 
 
 Columbus set sale in three small ships called 
 Nina, Pinter and Santa Anna. 
 
 The first land Columbus discovered was 
 Gibraltar. 
 
 Columbus was the first white man who dis- 
 covered America. 
 
 Columbus knew the earth was round because 
 he balanced an ^g'g on the table. 
 
 Columbus perished in sight of land. 
 
 The West Indians was the first discovered 
 by Christies Columbies. 
 
 The west Indaines was discovered in 1692 by 
 Chrissor Columbius. 
 
 The Crusaders were the first to settle 
 America. 
 
 The American colonies were settled by 
 Dutch navegators who founded them. 
 
 The first English settlements were made in 
 the Gulf of Mexico. 
 
 Slaves were introduced to this country by 
 Spain and Portugese people. 
 
 Kink Louis decleared ware against Kink 
 William who commanded the English Fources. 
 
English as S/ie is Taught. 55 
 
 A party of French and Indains came to Sketi- 
 ney and the Indains tomahorks was frozen. It 
 was a very bobloody war. For Fourty years 
 the war was but it did not last longe. The 
 war ended in 1776 because Kink Phillip discov- 
 ered the dead. It was called his war because 
 he was the cheaf mouver of it. 
 
 Virginia was named from Queen Virgin who 
 was called Elizabeth. 
 
 The Indians were the first Americans and 
 they settled over a vast expanse of the county. 
 Salem witch craft was a son of Massasoit. 
 The Indian wars were very desecrating to 
 the country. 
 
 The Indians pursued their warfare by hiding 
 in bushes and then scalping them. 
 
 Captain John Smith has been styled the 
 father of his country. His life was saved by 
 his daughter Pochahantas. 
 
 The Puritans found an insane asylum in the 
 wilds of America. 
 
 They were called Puritans because they were 
 more quiet than the Episcopalians. 
 
56 English as She is Taught. 
 
 Miles Standish discovered Plymouth and it 
 was named in his honor. 
 
 Roger Williams called the settlement Rhode 
 Island in honor of God's merciful Providence 
 shown to him. 
 
 William Penn was born in Boston in 1607. 
 He was the first white man who founded Penn- 
 sylvania. He founded Pennsylvania because 
 his name was William Penn. 
 
 William Penn discovered Philadelphia and 
 laid out its streets. 
 
 The Stamp Act was to make everybody 
 stamp all materials so they should be null and 
 void. 
 
 Benedict Arnold was greatly regretted by 
 the Americans as well as by the English. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin is the finest Example of 
 a selfmad man that American History affords. 
 He commenced life as a tallov/ chandelier boy 
 and step by step became a Great Genius. 
 
 George Washington was born in 1492. 
 
 At White Plains Gen. Washington murdered 
 several hundred men. 
 
English as She is Taught. 57 
 
 Gen. Washington is famous for the Wash- 
 ington Monument. 
 
 Washington wrote the Declareation of Inde- 
 pendence in 1492. 
 
 George Washington inherited consumption 
 in the army. 
 
 Washington died in Spain ahmost broken- 
 hearted. His remains were taken to the cathe- 
 dral in Havanna. 
 
 The Mexican war was the war of Texas with 
 the United States. 
 
 Gen. Scott fought bravely at the battle of 
 Wingfield. 
 
 When the Wig party was in power there 
 was striks all over the laborers. 
 
 Slavery was caused by the admission of Mis- 
 souri into the Union. 
 
 The Missouri Compromise compelled slaves 
 to enter all the different states and territo- 
 ries. 
 
 Gorilla warfare was war where men rode on 
 gorillas. 
 
 The Border Ruffians were founded to prevent 
 
58 Efiglish as She is Taught. 
 
 all emigrants into Kansas and they sacrificed 
 considerable lives. 
 
 John Brown was a very good insane man 
 who tried to get slaves into Virginia. He cap- 
 tured all the inhabitants, but was finally con- 
 quered and condemned to his death. 
 
 The confederasy was formed by the fugitive 
 slaves. 
 
 {English.) 
 
 England was named by the Angels. 
 
 The Celts were driven out of England into 
 Whales. 
 
 Julius Caesar invaded England 400 years B. 
 C. The English condition was in a rude state. 
 They joined in games such as cock fighting. 
 
 The Brittains were the Saxons who en- 
 tered England in 1492 under Julius Caesar. 
 
 The Britains came from Brittany. They 
 were a brave and warlike people and lived by 
 fishing and manufactures. 
 
 The Britains conquered Julius Caesar and 
 drove him ignominiously from his dominions. 
 
English as She is Taught. 59 
 
 The Britons founded the Druids. They 
 ust to hold religious services out of doors. 
 
 The Druids were supposed to be Roman 
 Catholicks. 
 
 The Crusaders were fanatics who fought in 
 tournaments. 
 
 The Habeas Corpus Act said that a body 
 whether alive or dead could be produced in 
 court. 
 
 Alfred the Great reigned 872 years. He 
 was distinguished for letting some buckwheat 
 cakes burn and the lady scolded him. 
 
 Rufus was named William on account of 
 his red hair. He established the curfew fire 
 bell. 
 
 William the Conqueror was the first of the 
 Mormons. 
 
 Edward the black Prince was famous for 
 founding chivalry. 
 
 Chivalry is a fight on horseback between two 
 horsemen in an open plain. 
 
 A night errant is a man who goes around in 
 the night in search of adventures. 
 
6o JEnglish as She is Taught. 
 
 The MjddleAges come in between antiquity 
 and posterity. 
 
 The War of the Roses was between the 
 white and the red. 
 
 Henry Eight was famous for being a great 
 widower having lost several wives. 
 
 Lady Jane Grey studied Greek and Latin 
 and was beheaded after a few days. 
 
 Queen Mary married the Dolphin. 
 
 Elizabeth was called the Virgin queen be- 
 cause of her many accomplishments and she 
 had a great many fine dresses. 
 
 The unfortunate Charles First was executed 
 and after he was beheaded he held it up 
 exclaiming Behold the head of a trater! 
 
 Cromwell was only a parallel with Bona- 
 parte. 
 
 Queen Victoria was the 4th son of George 
 Third the Duke of Kent. 
 
 John Bright is noted for an incurable dis- 
 ease. 
 
 Lord James Gordon Bennett instigated the 
 Gordon Riots. 
 
English as S/ie is Taught. 6i 
 
 {FrencJi^ 
 
 Joan of Arc lived in New Orleans where she 
 was discovered and burned by the British. 
 
 Cardinal Richelieu was one of the most 
 famous soldiers of France. He was cut down 
 on St. Bartholomew's Day. 
 
 St. Bartholomew was massacred in 1492. 
 
 The French Revolution was quite rapid. It 
 made some changes in the government and 
 many persons were slain. 
 
 Bonaparte gave away many thrones to his 
 brothers and sisters. 
 
 Louis Napoleon besieged all Paris who 
 elected him emperor. 
 
 By the Salic laws no woman or descendant 
 of a woman could occupy the throne. 
 
 Luther introduced Christianity into England 
 a good many thousand years ago. His birth- 
 day was November 1883. He was once a 
 Pope. He lived at the time of the Rebellion 
 of Worms. 
 
Mnglish as She is Taught. 
 
 {Roman.) 
 
 The history of Rome is wrapped in antiquity. 
 
 The Gauls were a very brave people of the 
 Tapean Rock. 
 
 Carthage was founded by Dido nearly one 
 hundred years ago. 
 
 Hannibal at the early age of six years was 
 raised to the command of the army. 
 
 Spartacus fought a war of several years 
 against the Romans. 
 
 Cataline was defeated and slain by his entire 
 army. 
 
 Pompey gave the Romans a splendid cam- 
 paign. 
 
 Trajan was persecuted by the Christians. 
 
 The seven hills of Rome were the Capitoline, 
 Palitine, Alpine, and I cannot remember those 
 I have not written down. 
 
 The Colliseum was erected on the top of an 
 inaccessible hill somewhere about the time of 
 Nero. When it was burning down he played 
 a tune on his violin. 
 
English as She is Taught. 63 
 
 In his military character Julius Caesar prob- 
 ably never surpassed any other hero. 
 
 Cesar succeeded in wresting the crown from 
 Mark Anthony. 
 
 Julius Caesar was quite a military man on the 
 whole. 
 
 Julius Caesar is noted for his famous telegrarr 
 despatch I came I saw I conquered. 
 
 When Julius Caesar crossed the Hellispont it 
 was the turning point in his carear. 
 
 The Crusaders were conquered by Julius 
 Caesar. 
 
 Julius Caesar was really a very great man. 
 He was a very great soldier and wrote a book 
 for beginners in the Latin. 
 
 Cleopatra was caused by the death of an asp 
 which she dissolved in a wine cup. 
 
 The reign of Augustus took place in the 
 Christian era. He caused it to be introduced 
 into the kingdom. 
 
 The emperor Vespasian destroyed his son 
 Titus after a tremendous siege of six 
 months. 
 
64 English as She is Taught. 
 
 Domitian was so cruel that he was noted for 
 his killing flies. 
 
 The Roman priests were chosen by the gods 
 and some by a special diety. 
 
 The toga was a robe that flowed over the 
 body very neat and graceful. 
 
 The Forum transacted the principal business 
 of Rome. 
 
 The Gordian knot was a very hard knot 
 which Nero tied and by it he kept the Roman 
 empire in subjection. 
 
 When a Gladiator was killed he held up his 
 finger and if the spectators wanted him to live 
 they held up their thumbs. 
 
 {Grecian^ 
 
 Greece is a country noted for its handsome 
 people. They are all sculptures. 
 
 Greece is divided into periods. 
 
 The only form of government in Greece was 
 a limited monkey. 
 
 Egypt and Rome were the principal divisions 
 of Greece. 
 
English as She is Taught. 65 
 
 The inhabitants of Greece lived in huts, eat- 
 ing the skins of wild beasts and dressing them- 
 selves in berries and acorns. 
 
 Helen was the daughter of Troy a very beau- 
 tiful woman and wrote the Illiad giving a long 
 account of it. 
 
 Lycurgus was a legislature. He abolished 
 commerce and dress. 
 
 Lycurgus was so strict he turned all the 
 women into men they were bold and corage- 
 ous. 
 
 Athens was the capital of Africa and the arts 
 flourished. 
 
 Darius attacked both sea and land. 
 
 The introduction of Asia made the Greeks 
 have great manners and wealth. 
 
 The Persian war lasted about 500 years. 
 
 Socrates was no use at fighting. He de- 
 stroyed some statues and had to drink sham- 
 rock. Socrates was a great ridiculer. 
 
 The Lacons talked Laconic. 
 
 Philip when ten years old was sent as a hos- 
 tess to Thebes. 
 
66 English as She is Taught. 
 
 Greece had only y wise Men. 
 
 Alexander surpassed all others in his rapidity 
 extent and splendor. He was a model exam- 
 ple to the career of others. 
 
 Ruins are almost always very historical for 
 they show how much money the inhabitants 
 must have spent on them. Ruins often give 
 us the dates of their erection and are very use- 
 ful in fixing the date of some event. 
 
English as She is Taught 
 
 67 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Intellectual. 
 
 {American.) 
 
 Lowell, Taylor and Irving stand foremost 
 among the literature of the day. 
 
 James Russell Lowell, Henry Longfellow, 
 Whittier and Horthorn have all written pieces 
 of some note. 
 
 Bryant while still a child wrote thanatopsis 
 and then became editor of a paper and lived 
 for many years after. 
 
 A sort of sadness kind of shone in Bryant's 
 poems. 
 
68 English as She is Taught. 
 
 The Brasebrig Hall and of the Spy was also 
 written by Bryant. 
 
 Washington Irving was a great poet and 
 prose. 
 
 Bracebridge Hall was written by Henry 
 Irving. 
 
 Washington Irving is noted for his sketch 
 pieces. He also wrote the lives of men. 
 
 Cooper's writings belong to that class of 
 literature called bell lettres. 
 
 Snow Bound was written by Peter Cooper. 
 
 R. Waldo Emerson which is good for solid 
 everyday use in extracting mottoes. 
 
 Emerson was first a minister but as he 
 couldn't agree he decided to become a poetical 
 and essay writer. 
 
 Longfellow confined himself to poetry. 
 
 Longfellow wrote the '' Reck of the Hes- 
 perus " and "Outer Mare." 
 
 Longfellow has indeed told the tale of 
 Evangeline fully well. 
 
 H. Wadsworth Longfellow is the most prom- 
 inent writer in North America. Heawather is 
 
English as She is Taught. 69 
 
 one of his principle poems a indian tale. Long- 
 fellow's poetry is characterized by universalism. 
 
 J. Greenleaf Whittier whose poetry proves 
 that he was a man into or upon whom the 
 beauties of nature never passed unnoticed. 
 
 Whittier is the author of the famous sonnet, 
 ''Sonnet on my Blindness" and the "Marble 
 Form." 
 
 Whittier wrote Tam O Shantaabouta Witch 
 in Salem. 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes writeings are inclined 
 to humerous. 
 
 Holmes is a very profligate and amusing 
 writer. 
 
 Hawthorn has written a quite large selection 
 of stories. 
 
 The Scarlit litter and the Spie was wTitten 
 by Hawthorne. 
 
 The House of the Seven Gables was written 
 by Lord Bryant. 
 
 In the house of Seven Gables it is the story 
 of seven devils who lived in the house. A 
 house situated in Massachusetts, 
 
7© English as She is Taught. 
 
 Hauthorn wrote the Dear Slyer. 
 
 Cotton Mather was a writer who invented 
 the cotton gin and wrote histories. 
 
 Mrs. Southworth's works are among those 
 classed among the Sentimental and are very 
 much admired by people of that class. 
 
 Joseph Rodman Drake his principal work is 
 lines to my mother's picture. 
 
 Edgar A. Poe was a very curdling writer. 
 
 Marmion was written by Poe. 
 
 Rev. E. P. Roe writes religiously. 
 . Webster is noted for his getting up the dic- 
 tionary. He also wrote other things besides 
 this. 
 
 Mrs. Beecher Stow wrote a very natural and 
 symathetic uncle Tom's cabin. 
 
 The author of uncle Tom gives good discrip- 
 tions of the people and places with whom she 
 is dealing. 
 
 Dread is a story of the disimal swamp. 
 
 Samuel Johnson an American writer. His 
 writing is proved and accepted, being excitin|; 
 and mcretorious. 
 
English as She is Taught. 71 
 
 Wordsworth was an American writer whose 
 works are such as will ever be admired. 
 
 Locke De Foe and Gibbons were all Ameri- 
 can novalists and I have forgotten their works. 
 
 {EnglisJi^ 
 
 Beowulf wrote the Scriptures. 
 
 Cadmus wrote pierce ploughman. 
 
 Adam Bede a prominent writer of his time 
 -^or he threw his soul and body into his 
 "vritings. 
 
 King Alfred wrote translations from the 
 Bible and it is regarded as a very fine produc- 
 tion yes one of the finest of the period. 
 
 Ben Jonson survived Shakespeare in some 
 respects. 
 
 Fox wrote a very good book of Marters. 
 
 Ben Jonson was a Shakesperian Dramalist. 
 He was a very rare writer as one of his friends 
 declared. 
 
 Spenser's Fairy queen shows the trials of 
 a Night and the triumphs of a Vertue. 
 
 Chaucer was the father of English pottery. 
 
72 English as She is Taught. 
 
 Chauserwas a bland verse writer of the third 
 century. 
 
 Geoffrey Chaucer was a great young boy. 
 His farther was lether seller. As time passed 
 on he was an extraordinary writer of his time. 
 
 Geffrey Chaucer fix the date of his birth at 
 1340 suppose to belong to the high class of 
 people from his sir name Chausier French he 
 was armed a knight only very respectfull people 
 could be armed knights. 
 
 Chaucer began his writings during the reign 
 of Queen Anne and they are deserving of 
 merit being the first of her reign. 
 
 Chaucer was an English poet who instructed 
 Queen Elizabeth and she mourned greatly for 
 him when he died. His principal Work was 
 concerning the inhabitants of Bath. 
 
 When Chaucer was 2 1 years of old he engaged 
 in war. He fought valliantly and was unharmed. 
 He also wrote a great many other works on 
 Fowl. 
 
 Chaucer displays his fame which shall always 
 be distinguished from time immemoriable. 
 
Etiglish as She is Taught. 73 
 
 His satyrical stanzas are deep and show that 
 we have found a man of value. The Canter- 
 bury Tales are undertaken by several journey- 
 men. The Jolly Man was the amusement for 
 the multitude. We had 32 going on the 
 journey but each had no time to Tell a Tale, 
 so they did not tell tales. 
 
 King Arthur was to flourish as magnificence 
 in Canterbury Tails. 
 
 Peter Simple was one of the Canterbury 
 Tales. 
 
 In the Canterbury Tale it gave account of 
 king Alfred on his way to the shrine of Thomas 
 Bucket. 
 
 The Canterbury Tales are 24 volums. It 
 concists or happens in an In in Canterberry 
 and the people which is not uncustomary. 
 
 In the Canterbury Tales the Night of Fex- 
 tivity arrives and each contributes by singeing 
 or resitation. He is Inspired by angels who 
 bids him sing of the origan of Man. 
 
 Now Chaucer must have been a very keen 
 intelligent man to thus class various characters 
 
74 jEfigHsh as She ts Taught. 
 
 and put them in their right place as to have 
 harmony. His mind was always planning. 
 
 Chaucer we find him gazing at his empty 
 purse and apostrophizing it in despare and in 
 terms that show his abject poverty. 
 
 Samson Augusta was one of Chaucer's princi- 
 pal works as it contained his life giving a full 
 account of it. He also wrote something about 
 Paradise. 
 
 Chaucer was succeeded by H. Wads. Long- 
 fellow an American Writer. His writings were 
 chiefly prose and nearly one hundred years 
 elapsed. 
 
 Shakespere is an English author who is 
 uncomputed. 
 
 Shakespeare was a fiction and allegorical 
 writer. His father married a lady of means 
 but they became greatly reserved in circum- 
 stances. His most intimate friend was Ben 
 Butler who was also a great fiction writer. 
 
 Shakespears translated the Scriptures and it 
 was called St. James because he did it. 
 
 Shakespere wrote Mackbeth, Orthello and 
 
English as She is Taught. 75 
 
 Merchant of Vennice, it is a wealtiiy Jew and 
 Arabella has many suters. 
 
 Hamlet one of Shakespeares best Tragedies 
 in which Romeo and Juliet are the principal 
 characters. It is a didactic poem. 
 
 Hamlet set to the stage by so many eminant 
 artists bears strongly the character and mind 
 of the writer. It has been judged not much 
 over much and still holds the palm. 
 
 In the play of Hamlet Shakespere tries to 
 show how brewing over trouble makes people 
 insane. 
 
 In Hamlet the king gave a gladitorial com- 
 bat in which Hamlet and Laertes is to take 
 part. They all lie dead in the arena. 
 
 The soliloquies of Hamlet throughout the 
 play are notorious. 
 
 Hamlet is very famous for the piece he used 
 to speak about to be or not to be. 
 
 The play of Julius Caesar consists of five 
 acts each act being a Sene. He being the 
 center around which all the rest are concerned 
 is the main character. 
 
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 King Lear is a play where King Lear has 
 three daughters and is very ungrateful. 
 
 The merchant of Venice is old Shylock who 
 lives in Venice. 
 
 Macbeth was terrified by the ghost of Ban- 
 croft. 
 
 Amanda was the heroine of the Tempest. 
 
 Shakespeare's sonnits are on my blindness 
 and ode to Imortallity. 
 
 Frances Bacon was born in England and was 
 a chemist, being of a very experimenting sort 
 of nature. He was a friar or Monk. 
 
 Bacon wrote many things in defense of phi- 
 losophy and was received by the people. He 
 also wrote a great many histories of all the 
 countries. 
 
 Some of the folks say that Lord Bacon wrote 
 a good many of Shakespeare's plays for him. 
 
 Francis Bacon wrote under the name of 
 Ovum Organum. 
 
 John Milton was a great of the Elizabethan 
 age. He Graduated from Colledge and devoted 
 himself to literary persuits. His principal 
 
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 works are Paridise lost and regained this poem 
 is very great when we consider the circum- 
 stances which it was written under having been 
 born bHnd he translated it to his daughter and 
 after all that it was sold for 5 lbs. 
 
 Milton was called the blind poet and justly 
 so as he was born blind. His brain wor1<ed 
 and worked until it gave to the world a master- 
 pece of poetry in Paridise Lost. It is his 
 greatest effort though he is the author of 
 several others. 
 
 John Milton's parents paid great attention 
 to his litarary talents. John was a mere boy 
 when his parents noticed him displaying great 
 genius and love for writting and they then set 
 to work to have this spirit advanced. 
 
 John Milton's parents could not send his son 
 to school so long as he desired to. So he was 
 sent to work at a early age to procure a means 
 of livelihood, he was willing to do almost 
 every thing to get along, so as to take part in 
 some literary pursuit. So providence favored 
 his attempts. 
 
78 English as She is Taught. 
 
 Milton's father was a Pureitan but still 
 wished to give his son a good education. He 
 spent a few years with a privit tutor and then 
 went to reside in his father's palace where he 
 studied music and mathematics. 
 
 Milton showed great aptitude for love of 
 learning, so that his education was carefully 
 looked into. He was very popular with the 
 puritan party because he was such a very 
 puritan. 
 
 Milton had a very intellectual mind. 
 
 The early part of Milton's life was uphill 
 work. He rose in favor towards the central 
 part. 
 
 John Milton was always poor. He never 
 became rich. He had a great many trials and 
 suffering and povety. 
 
 Milton formed a type of the Puritan ascen- 
 dency. 
 
 John Milton wrote translations and very sub- 
 lime writings. 
 
 Milton is divided into three periods. L'Al- 
 legro was a novel written by him the greatest 
 
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 of English novelists since Shakespeare. Ill 
 Penserose was written by him. 
 
 Three times Milton gave his hand and was 
 united in matrimony. 
 
 Milton's married life was not happy. He 
 married three wives in succession. 
 
 Milton's wife would not live with him. His 
 life was to strict for her. At last thinking that 
 he ment to get a Divorce as he was writeing 
 on that subject she returned to him. 
 
 Milton wrote '' Miltons Paradise " lost and 
 ^' Paradise " regained in which Satan is repre- 
 sent as rebelling against our Saviour just as 
 sinners and those who have sinned but have 
 been converted. 
 
 Milton's principal work is the exclusion of 
 the bad angels out of heaven. 
 
 Paradise lost begins rather low at first, but 
 ends in one great climax. 
 
 John Bunyan lived a life of scantity. 
 
 The principal works of John Dryden was 
 Lives of the poets, belonging to Literature. 
 
 Addison is the author of child Harold. 
 
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 Sam Johnson was so queer in his writings 
 that he was always called Johnsonese. 
 
 Fielding his works have been regarded with 
 great success. 
 
 Richardson had the honor of standing among 
 the first of his time. 
 
 Sterne may be regarded as a formost writer 
 of great praise. 
 
 Smollett is a writer of great renown to some 
 but others have never considered his genius. 
 
 Peter the simple was written by Hume so 
 as to describe a man who was not very 
 bright. 
 
 By DeFoe's genius he managed to get hold 
 of the necessities of life and so managed to 
 live. 
 
 John Locke was a wTiter of England who 
 wrote very extremely on Political Economy. 
 
 John Locke's works were ministerial. 
 
 John Locke's writings are sarcastic and 
 cold. He wrote a white Devil essay. 
 
 John Locke was not of a poetical turn of 
 mind. 
 
English as She is Taught. 
 
 John Locke's works are full of energy and 
 lack no little want of thought. 
 
 Alexander Pope is an English Novalist and 
 deserving of special praise when we consider 
 his misfortunes in bodily ailments. No other 
 is so instructive as Pope's essay on man it 
 shows deep knowledge of man caracter. 
 
 Alexander Pope the worthy successor to 
 dryden to the Throne of Poesy. He was sick 
 by deformed in body. 
 
 Pope's life was quite bitter. He had a 
 great deal of sarcasm and wrote a very fine 
 essay upon Man. This was considered his 
 master stroke. 
 
 Pope was deformed in many ways so much 
 so that his mother was to be his servant at 
 any moment he spoke. His writenings are 
 famous for the lucid arrangement of matters 
 and for much genius. 
 
 Pope writes a poem about a maid of honor 
 has beautiful hair cut off and let to fly in the 
 wind for which poem he is reproved and he 
 tries to correct its falts. 
 
82 English as She is Taught. 
 
 Pope wrote Dunciade in which the thrown 
 of the dunces is given to his litterary enimes. 
 He wrote the Guardeen. 
 
 Pope belonged to the lake school and later 
 on his writtings were free from the bitter sat- 
 tire which shown out of his later works. 
 
 Pope's masterpiece was essay on man in 
 which he wrote his ideas. The quotations I 
 do not think can be improved upon. 
 
 In the Rape of the Locke there is a Story- 
 depicted in it. 
 
 Jonathan Swift belonged to the English 
 Church but was not much of a ornament from 
 a religious point of view. 
 
 Jonathan Swift belonged to what is called 
 the lake school of Poetry. 
 
 Swift wrote a Ulogy on His own death a 
 touching poem is his lines to Stellar on her 
 death. 
 
 Swift wrote the tale of a tub between Cath- 
 olics and Protestants. 
 
 Swift wrote the famous poem of Twistam 
 Shanty. 
 
English as She is Taught. 83 
 
 Jonathan Swift's mind was from far away 
 back tainted with insanity. 
 
 Swift wrote GuUifer's travels which was 
 discription of what he was supposed to 
 see on a journey which he was supposed he 
 took. 
 
 Oliver Goldsmith's Histories are not very 
 good but his other works are classed among 
 the 1st. 
 
 Burns chief poem was called *' Tamoschanta." 
 
 Tam OShanter is a sort of a ghost story told 
 by an old man. A superstitious something 
 that people believed in those days. 
 
 Cowper had a melchomcally or sad disposi- 
 tion but wrote feeling lines. 
 
 Child Harold is Cowper's most famous work. 
 This was the only novel he ever wrote not 
 being much of a novel writer. Robinson Cru- 
 so was William Cowper. 
 
 Wm. Wordsworth wrote the Barefoot Boy 
 and Imitations on Immortality. 
 
 Gibbon wrote a History of His travels in 
 Italy. This was original. 
 
84 English as She is Taught. 
 
 Lord Byron was a great novelist. He also 
 wrote a few poems. 
 
 Lord Byron was the son of an heiress and a 
 drunken man. 
 
 Coleridge has caused them m-uch joy and 
 pleasure as he has written a large number of 
 charming and illustrated works. 
 
 Thomas Hood wrote the Song of the Shirt 
 a very laughable and prety writing : About a 
 lady riding. 
 
 Sir Walter Scott was the greatest poet Scot- 
 land ever produced his principal work was ye 
 banks and brays he also wrote a poem entitled 
 Ivan Hoe. 
 
 Sir Walter Scott ranked equal with any in 
 point of genius as they did in popularity. 
 
 Scott's great^powers of discription and makes 
 his works appear as if they happened all over 
 again. Marmion is one example where the 
 rattling of the chains and so on are brought 
 back to us again. 
 
 Marmion is a neatly written tale. 
 
 Marmion was a beautiful maiden who had 
 
English as She is Taught. 85 
 
 many trials and afflictions. It is filled with 
 illusions to Nature. 
 
 Marmion was a story of country life des- 
 cribed Marmion as a riding forth to gain glory. 
 
 Kenilworth is a story nicely delivered of 
 the literature of the day. 
 
 Scott was the author of Watts on the Mind. 
 
 Scott was great in prose, poetry and mis- 
 fortune. 
 
 Macauleys was a great poet having been 
 educated in a village he then became an editor 
 of an evening paper and among his best works 
 are the clock on the Stairs. Macauleys and 
 Wittier are compared because both labored for 
 the good of mankind. 
 
 Lord Macauley was born in London at a 
 time when there was the greatest need to Eng- 
 land of a good historian. 
 
 Thomas B. Macauley's was a man of stern 
 but gentle parents. He had every amusement 
 that parents could bestow on a child. 
 
 Thomas Babbington Makorley graduated at 
 Harvard and then studied law, he was raised 
 
86 English as She is Taught. 
 
 to the peerage as Baron in 1557 and died in 
 1776. 
 
 Macauley wrote Comeration Odes to a gre- 
 cianearn under the willow. 
 
 Thomas B. Macauley was the author of 
 Pilgrims Progress. 
 
 Maclauley's writings are all essays. He has 
 loose and peodic sentences nicely arranged. 
 He is very carefull always to perfect harmony. 
 
 Macauley's writings are noted for brilliant 
 thought but not for very much accuracy. His 
 works received a large sale. 
 
 It is a question is not Macauly sometimes 
 to oratorical. 
 
 George Eliot is quite an authoress. 
 
 George Elliot is a writer of some worth. 
 
 Geo. Elliott is the best lady Novalist in 
 English. 
 
 George Eliot left a wife and children who 
 mourned greatly for his genius. 
 
 George Eliot gained renown by her work on 
 Jane Ayre. 
 
 George Eliott Miss Mary Evans Mrs. Cross 
 
English as She is TaughL 87 
 
 Mrs. Lewis was the greatest female poet unless 
 George Sands is made an exception of. 
 
 Dickens is a great novelist he makes us fall 
 in with his caracters. 
 
 Dickens is one of the Greatest American 
 Novilist. 
 
 Dickens is noted for his multiplicity in tell- 
 ing stories. 
 
 Dickens is a very smart man and a portrait 
 of character. 
 
 Dickens gives an incite into human life. 
 
 Dickens is the most human writer Old 
 Curiosity Shop was written by David Copper- 
 field. 
 
 Bulwell is considered a good writer. 
 
 Lord Lytton former Bulwer placed himself 
 at the head of English poets. 
 
 Thackeray's genius is original. 
 
 Thacerey is a Great Genius. He gives us the 
 fashionable life. 
 
 Mrs. Browning wrote sonnets to the Pottery 
 Geese. 
 
88 English as She is Taught. 
 
 Mrs. Brownings Song of the Shirt is in 
 ahiiost every reader. 
 
 Tennyson is a very populus poet. 
 
 The greatest writers of the present day are 
 Lord Beconsfield w^ho wrote the ^' History of 
 Cyprus " and Miss Braddon who wrote '' Pev- 
 erel of the Peak." 
 
 Sir Walter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the 
 Great and Johnson were the first great Novel- 
 ists. 
 
 The most important event in the life of 
 Horace was his birth in 45. 
 
 The Iliad is called an Epic poem because it 
 was first written in the Epic dialect. 
 
 Homer's writings are Homer's Essays Virgil 
 the Aneid and paradise lost some people say 
 that these poems were not written by Homer 
 but by another man of the same name. 
 
 Sanscrit is not used as much as it used 
 to be as it went out of use 1500 B. C. 
 
English as She is Taught. 89 
 
 IX. 
 
 Philosophical. 
 
 The name of the great philosopher of modern 
 times was called Eurekia. 
 
 The principle of Diogenes was that he could 
 move the world if he could find a place big 
 enough to stand in. 
 
 Franklin proved that electricity and ligl-et- 
 ning are rods. 
 
 Temperature is measured b}- a machine 
 called a hydrometer. 
 
 Sun melts ice by the law of cohesion of 
 atoms. 
 
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 An inclined plane is a plane that inclines. 
 
 Drops of water are generally spherical for 
 various reasons known only to the gracious 
 Providence who has formed them. 
 
 Afifinity is a liking evinced between two 
 objects, contact not being necessary. One 
 person may have an affinity or liking for an- 
 other. 
 
 Capillary attraction is the attraction between 
 hair. A person's hair is affected by fright. The 
 hair of some animals is attracted by lightning. 
 
 A body will go just as far in the first second 
 as the body will go plus the force the gravity 
 and that's equal to twice what the body will go. 
 
 Specific gravity is the weight to be com- 
 pared weight of an equal volume of or that 
 that is the weight of the body compared 
 with the weight of and equal volume. 
 
 Inertia is that proberty of bodies by virtue 
 of which it cannot change its own condition of 
 rest or motion. In other words it is the nega- 
 tive quality of passiveness either in recovera- 
 ble latency or insipient latescence. 
 
English as She is Taught. 91 
 
 The air pump is an instrument used for 
 forcing water into a pump and expelling it by 
 means of a vacuum. It ascends in the water 
 downwards. 
 
 The law of fluid pressure divide the different 
 forms of organized bodies by the form of at- 
 traction and the number increased will be the 
 form. 
 
 By convection the body is heated instan- 
 taneous, as gunpowder. 
 
 The reason a body falls when not supported 
 is that there is not enough air under it to keep 
 it up and so it has to fall or the specific 
 gravity is not great enough to hold it up. 
 
 The difference between latent and sensible 
 heat is that it feels sensible. 
 
 If you listen closely you can vibrate a pitch- 
 fork. 
 
 If an experiment be successful the result 
 will be inevitable. 
 
 Thermal unit is the heat required to raise a 
 pound of water through one foot. 
 
 If we were on a railroad track and a train 
 
92 English as She is Taught. 
 
 was coming the train would deafen our ears so 
 that we couldn't see to get off the track. 
 
 Tides are caused by the reflection of the 
 sun and moon upon the water. 
 
 Sir Isaac Newton founded the '^ Laws of 
 Gravity." 
 
 A simple pendulum is an imaginary point 
 hung on a thread. 
 
 The vibrations of a pendulum is determined 
 by the time they take. 
 
 A noise is a collection of sounds which 
 means nothing but a clatter. 
 
 Sound is that form or motion of the mind 
 which effects the oratory nerves. 
 
 A sound is not like a noise because it has 
 essential things to depend upon and a noise 
 has not. 
 
 To get gold from its ore it is polished and 
 heated. 
 
 Metals are changed in their elements by fuss- 
 ing them together. 
 
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 93 
 
 X. 
 
 Physiological. 
 
 Physillogigy is to study about your bones 
 stummick and vertebry. 
 
 Disease is any affection of any organ of the 
 body. 
 
 Disease is more common to some people than 
 to others. 
 
 Disease is sickness caused by the introduc- 
 tion of some foreign generally insect substance 
 as cholera. 
 
 When )'ou have a illness it makes your health 
 bad as well as having a disease. 
 
94 English as She is Taught. 
 
 All mechanical work is injurious to the 
 health. 
 
 If a sawyer does not wear spectacles he will 
 be sure to lose his sight. 
 
 Occupations which are injurious to health 
 are carbolic acid gas which is impure blood. 
 
 A stone mason's work is injurious because 
 when he is chipping he breathes in all the little 
 chips and then they are taken into the 
 lungs. 
 
 A bootmaker's trade is very injurious because 
 the bootmakers always press the boot against 
 tlie thorax and therefore it presses the thorax 
 in and it touches the heart and if they do not 
 die they are cripples for life. 
 
 The body is mostly composed of water and 
 about one half is avaricious tissue. 
 
 The body has an infinite number of bones 
 joined together by the joints. 
 
 The spine is quite an important bone. 
 
 The spinal column is made of bones running 
 all over the body. 
 
 We have an upper and a lower skin. The 
 
English as She is Taught 95 
 
 lower skin moves all the time and the upper 
 skin moves when we do. 
 
 The upper skin is called eppederby and the 
 lower skin is called derby. 
 
 We should never eat because the food does 
 not digest. 
 
 Digestion belongs to the lower animals. 
 
 Digestion is the circulation of the blood. 
 
 Digestion is reducing our food to plump. 
 
 Digestion is when food is taken into the 
 stomach. 
 
 The digestive fluids are the nerves muscles 
 and bones. 
 
 The organs of digestion are the stomach 
 liver spleen and utensils. 
 
 The stomach is a small pear-shaped bone 
 situated in the body. 
 
 After swallowing the food undergoes masti- 
 fication. 
 
 The gastric juice keeps the bones from 
 creaking. 
 
 The gastric juice digests the stomach. 
 
 There are three salivary glands. The lacte 
 
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 als in the intestines. The lymphatic in the 
 stomach. They change starch to grape sugar 
 in the mouth. 
 
 Eating rapidly the food does not give the 
 saliva time to get into the mouth. 
 
 The salivary glands are used to salivate the 
 body. 
 
 Perspiration is caused by the culinary 
 glands. 
 
 The chyle flows up the middle of the back- 
 bone and reaches the heart where it meets the 
 oxygen and is purified. 
 
 The thoraic duct leads from the exterior ear 
 to the drum. 
 
 The thoraic duct is a tube in the back of the 
 neck. 
 
 When food is swallowed it passes through the 
 windpipe and stops at the right side and some 
 of it goes to make blood. 
 
 In the stomach starch is changed to cane- 
 sugar and cane-sugar to sugar-cane. 
 
 We all have a very important elementary 
 cannal. 
 
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 The heart is a comical shaped bag. 
 
 The function of the heart is between the 
 lungs. 
 
 The heart is suspended from the fifth pair of 
 ribs. 
 
 The heart manufactures the blood and the 
 liver keeps it going. 
 
 Whenever the heart is emptied by the action 
 of the lungs it causes disease. 
 
 When the heart beats it stirs up the blood 
 and that digests the food. 
 
 The work of the heart is to repair the differ- 
 ent organs in about half a minute. 
 
 The nerve centers are the cartilages of the 
 nerves. 
 
 The optic nerve is the principal nerve used 
 in digestion. 
 
 The optic nerve is the nerve located at the 
 base of the brain. 
 
 The olfactory nerve enters the cavity of the 
 orbit and is developed into the special sense of 
 hearing. 
 
 Nerves always give us the toothache. 
 
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 Neuralgia is caused by nerves trying to pierce 
 the bones. 
 
 The bones need constant oiling. This oil is 
 called cartilege and runs from all the glands in 
 the body. 
 
 The eyes are set in two sockets in a bone 
 which turns up at the end and then becomes 
 the nose. 
 
 When the blood circulates in the brain it is 
 called intermittent. 
 
 The blood flows through the alimentery 
 canal into the abdominal canopy. 
 
 The blood is putrefied in the lungs by in- 
 spired air. 
 
 The blood corpusels interfere with the liver 
 and prevents circulation. 
 
 The three coverings of the brain are the 
 diameter, the perimeter and the trachea. 
 
 When the intestines become congealed they 
 are followed by instant death. 
 
 Albumen is a classification of articles of food. 
 
 Albumen is a whity substance existing in the 
 white of an ^^'g to a great extent. 
 
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 Alcoholic beverages greatly obstruct the 
 breaking down of the body. 
 
 The heart lungs and blood is very dangerous. 
 
 The cow has a pulse as well as anybody else. 
 
 The cow has a pulse but you can not feel it 
 at his wrist. 
 
 A cow has no pulse but the higher animals 
 sometimes do. 
 
 All animals that have feet are called quad- 
 rupeds. 
 
 The molars arc the teeth that grow outside 
 the head. 
 
 The growth of a tooth begins in the back of 
 the mouth and extends to the stomach. 
 
 We are vacksinated for the smallpox and 
 verylord. 
 
 Fat is found in the creases of the body. 
 
 An anatomical figure is to illustrate diseases 
 of the skin. 
 
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 XL 
 
 Astronomical. 
 
 A Sidereal day is the time from the sun leav- 
 ing the sky till he appears again. 
 
 The farther the sun is up the longer it takes 
 it to set and the days are longer in summer than 
 when the sun is low down. 
 
 The weight of the earth is found by compar- 
 ing a mass of known lead with that of a mass 
 of unknown lead. 
 
 To find the weight of the earth take the 
 length of a degree on a meridian and multiply 
 by 62^2 pounds. 
 
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 The size of the earth is found by finding the 
 horizontal parallax of the sun. 
 
 Abberation is if we saw a star and shot at it, 
 the shot would not pass through the center but 
 through the side. 
 
 The moon is 240 miles from the earth. 
 
 The moon's nodes are the corners of the 
 moon's orbit. 
 
 The reason for believing that there are moun- 
 tains on the moon is due to the shadows re- 
 flected on the earth. 
 
 The libration of the moon show the north, 
 east, south, and west sides of the heavens. 
 
 The motions of the moon are found by 
 watching the sun spots. 
 
 There can be an eclipse of the moon when 
 the sun gets into the moon's shadow. 
 
 Juniper is a very bright star. 
 
 Venus, Jupiter and perhaps the earth was 
 known to the ancients. 
 
 Mars moves in his orbit at the rate of sixteen 
 seconds a mile. 
 
 The earth is 1492 miles in circumference. 
 
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 The spheres are to each other as the squares 
 of their homologous sides. 
 
 EcHpses are caused whenever the obscuration 
 of a body is passed by the shadow of some 
 other body. 
 
 The planets shine with a steady light but 
 the stars sprinkle. 
 
 The stars would cover up the whole heavens 
 if they were all spread out so astronomers have 
 concluded to arrange them in constellations. 
 
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 XII. 
 
 Political. 
 
 ♦^is a) 
 
 The world would be in a state of cosmos if 
 it had no system of government. 
 
 Congress is divided into civilized half civil- 
 ized and savage. 
 
 The Constitution of the United States was 
 established to ensure domestic hostility. 
 
 The Constitution of the United States is that 
 part of the book at the end which nobody 
 reads. 
 
 The first Conscientious Congress met in Phil- 
 adelphia. 
 
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 A bill becomes a law when the President 
 vetos it. 
 
 The three departments in the general govern- 
 ment are the White House, Custom House and 
 United Treasury. 
 
 The three departments of the government is 
 the President rules the world, the governor 
 rules the state, the mayor rules the city. 
 
 There are two political divisions in the 
 United States the democrats and republican. 
 
 The number of Senaters from each State is 
 determined by the number of votes. 
 
 The Articles of Confederation were made by 
 the Confederates and the Constitution by all 
 the people. 
 
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 XIII. 
 
 Musical, 
 
 Musical sounds differ because some are nicer 
 than others. 
 
 Pitch is the length of the key board of a 
 orgin. 
 
 An interval in music is the distance on the 
 key board from one piano to the next. 
 
 The value of a whole note depends on where 
 it comes. 
 
 A hole note requires three beats. 
 
 A Rest means you are not to sing it. 
 
 We always sing five lines and four spaces. 
 
 A dotted note holds on longer. 
 
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 English as She is Taught. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Oratorical. 
 
 Elocution is opening the mouth wide open. 
 
 It is a very important thing to breathe. 
 
 We should always breathe with the muselsof 
 the diagram unless we have catarr or a cold in 
 the head. 
 
 Vigorous breathing gives you wind in the 
 lungs. 
 
 Strong breathing prevents bilious deficien- 
 cies. 
 
 By breathing any slight adhesion of the lungs 
 is torn awa}'. 
 
 Good breathing prevents contagious diseases 
 from settling in the systum. 
 
English as She is Taught. 107 
 
 Breathing is very good for reading for when 
 you are reading you carnt breathe at all and so 
 it is good to breath a good deal before. 
 
 Articulation is caused by resperation. 
 
 Distinct articulation can not be made unless 
 we have a tongue our lips and our teeth. 
 
 Vowel sounds are made b}' keeping the mouth 
 wide open and consonant sounds by keeping it 
 shut. 
 
 The Asperate quality of voice is when )'ou 
 try to say something in a whisper. 
 
 Force is more loudness sometimes than oth- 
 ers. 
 
 Emphasis is putting more distress on one 
 word than another. 
 
 Inflection is when the voice goes up and then 
 comes down again it is a period. 
 
 A retorical pause is when you have to take 
 breath. 
 
 Stammering is caused by some detriment in 
 the speech. 
 
 Physical exercise makes the vocal muscles 
 operate stronger. 
 
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 English as She is Taught. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Metaphysical. 
 
 The study of Mental Philosophy teaches us 
 that we are all sensible beings. 
 
 The imagination is that part of the mind 
 which looks forward to that which it does not 
 lay its visible eye on. 
 
 An energy is perfected when it is tanta- 
 mount. 
 
 The Canons of Induction were invented by 
 Sir Humphrey Davy. 
 
 Hamilton made a long and exhausting analy- 
 sis of sense perception. 
 
English as She is Taught. 109 
 
 Reid considered externality to be something 
 hard. 
 
 The theory that intuitive truths are discov- 
 ered by the light of nature originated from St. 
 John's interpretation of a passage in the Gospel 
 of Plato. 
 
 Man's moral life first originated in his per. 
 ception of the world of Nature. 
 
 Herodetus tells us that the Egyptians were 
 the first men who had immortal souls. 
 
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