Download or read book The Comic Eton Grammar written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The comic Eton grammar written by Percival Leigh and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Comic Latin Grammar written by Percival Leigh and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1840 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous introduction to the Latin grammar and language - what could be more fun! This grammar is illustrated with many amusing pictures and the sundry comic texts make it a pleasure to read.Please note: This is an old book. 19th century humor may not always be agreeable to modern readers.
Download or read book The Comic Latin Grammar A New and Facetious Introduction to the Latin Tongue written by Percival Leigh and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Download or read book Paul Prendergast or The comic schoolmaster comprising a new and facetious introduction to the English language The comic English grammar arithmetic The comic cocker and the classics The comic Eton grammar 3 pt written by Percival Leigh and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Comic Latin Grammar written by Percival Leigh and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1840 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous introduction to the Latin grammar and language - what could be more fun! This grammar is illustrated with many amusing pictures and the sundry comic texts make it a pleasure to read.Please note: This is an old book. 19th century humor may not always be agreeable to modern readers.
Download or read book The Comic Eton Grammar written by Percival Leigh and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Comic English Grammar written by Percival Leigh and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2024-01-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW AND FACETIOUS INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH TONGUE By Percival Leigh Embellished with upwards of forty-five Characteristic Illustrations By JOHN LEECH. Fashion requires, and like the rest of her sex, requires because she requires, that before a writer begins the business of his book, he should give an account to the world of his reasons for producing it; and therefore, to avoid singularity, we shall proceed with the statement of our own, excepting only a few private ones, which are neither here nor there. To advance the interests of mankind by promoting the cause of Education; to ameliorate the conversation of the masses; to cultivate Taste, and diffuse Refinement; these are the objects we have in view in submitting a Comic English Grammar to the patronage of a discerning Public. Few persons there are, whose ears are so extremely obtuse, as not to be frequently annoyed at the violations of Grammar by which they are so often assailed. It is really painful to be forced, in walking along the streets, to hear such phrases as, "That 'ere omnibus." "Where've you bin?" "Vot's the odds?" and the like. Very dreadful expressions are also used by cartmen and others in addressing their horses. What can possibly induce a human being to say "Gee woot!" "'Mather way!" or "Woa not to mention the atrocious "Kim aup!" of the barbarous butcher's boy. It is notorious that the above and greater enormities are perpetrated in spite of the number of Grammars already before the world. This fact sufficiently excuses the present addition to the stock; and as serious English Grammars have hitherto failed to effect the desired reformation, we are induced to attempt it by means of a Comic one. With regard to the moral tendency of our labors, we may be here permitted to remark, that they will tend, if successful, to the suppression of evil speaking ; and as the Spartans used to exhibit a tipsy slave to their children with a view to disgust them with drunkenness, and We will not allow a man to give an old woman a dose of rhubarb if he have not acquired at least half a dozen sciences; but we permit a quack to sell as much poison as he pleases. When one man runs away with another's wife, and, being on that account challenged to fight a duel, shoots the aggrieved party through the head, the latter is said to receive satisfaction. We never take a glass of wine at dinner without getting somebody else to do the same, as if we wanted encouragement; and then, before we venture to drink, we bow to each other across the table, preserving all the while a most wonderful gravity. This, however, it may be said, is the natural result of endeavoring to keep one another in countenance. The way in which we imitate foreign manners and customs is very amusing. Savages stick fish-bones through their noses; our fair countrywomen have hoops of metal poked through their ears. The Caribs flatten the forehead; the Chinese compress the foot; and we possess similar contrivances for reducing the figure of a young lady to a resemblance to an hour-glass or a devil-on-two-sticks. There being no other assignable motive for these and the like proceedings, it is reasonable to suppose that they are adopted, as schoolboys say, "for fun." We could go on, were it necessary, adducing facts to an almost unlimited extent; but we consider that enough has now been said in proof of the comic character of the national mind. And in conclusion, if any other than an English or American author can be produced, equal in point of wit, humor, and drollery, to Swift, Sterne, Dickens, or Paulding, we hereby engage to eat him; albeit we have no pretensions to the character of a "helluo librorum." "English Grammar," according to Lindley Murray, "is the art of speaking and writing the English language with propriety." The English language, written and spoken with propriety, is commonly called the King's English.
Download or read book Paul Prendergast Or The Comic Schoolmaster Comprising a New and Facetious Introduction to the English Language Arithmetic and the Classics written by Paul Prendergast (pseud. [i.e. Percival Leigh.]) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A History of Eton College 1440 1875 With illustrations by P H Delamotte written by Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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