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The Art of Public SpeakingThe Art of Public SpeakingThe efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect: its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power. A book may be full of good ideas well expressed, but if its...
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The Turkish JesterThe Turkish Jester - or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin EffendiThe story goes, one of the stories of a hundred, that Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi one day ascending into the pulpit to preach, said, O believers, do ye not know what I am...
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An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)Series One: Essays on Wit No. 4 [Corbyn Morris] An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) With an Introduction by James L....
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English SatiresEnglish SatiresSatire and the satirist have been in evidence in well-nigh all ages of the world's history. The chief instruments of the satirist's equipment are irony, sarcasm, invective, wit, and humour. The satiric denunciation of a writer burning with indignation at some social wrong...
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Literary Character of Men of GeniusLiterary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and ConfessionsFor the fifth time I revise a subject which has occupied my inquiries from early life, with feelings still delightful, and an enthusiasm not wholly diminished. Had not the principle upon...
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Little Classics, Volume 10 (of 18)Stories of ChildhoodThey were friends in a friendship closer than brotherhood. Nello was a little Ardennois,Patrasche was a big Fleming. They were both of the same age by length of years, yet one was still young, and the other was already old. They had...
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A Dutch Boy Fifty Years AfterA Dutch Boy Fifty Years After IN WHOSE LIVES ARE FOUND THE SOURCE AND MAINSPRING OF SOME OF THE EFFORTS OF THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK IN HIS LATER YEARS Along an island in the North Sea, five miles from the Dutch coast, stretches...
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How To Write Special Feature ArticlesHow To Write Special Feature Articles - A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of NewspapersThis book is the result of twelve years' experience in teaching university students to write special feature articles...
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Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911NOVELS A MAN FROM THE NORTH ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS LEONORA A GREAT MAN SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE WHOM GOD HATH JOINED BURIED ALIVE THE OLD WIVES' TALE THE GLIMPSE HELEN WITH THE HIGH...
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The Silly SyclopediaThe Silly Syclopedia - A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for Hilarious Purposes Only Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things Some eighteen months ago I took this brilliant bunch of brain...
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Best Short StoriesBest Short StoriesThere is a wide difference of opinion, even among the most discriminating critics, as to what constitutes the point of a good joke. Aside from varying temperaments, this is largely due to one's experience with life in general. Or intimate acquaintance with...
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Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 06Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) Within two or three years after the appearance in 1698 of Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness...
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Humorous Masterpieces from American LiteratureHumorous Masterpieces from American Literature BAYARD TAYLOR Selections from the Experiences of the A.C. WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER. Dobbs His Ferry JOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST. Father Higgins's Preferment JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE. Fred Trover's Little Iron-Clad OLIVER BELL BUNCE. Mr. Bluff Discourses on the Country and...
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Love Letters of a Rookie to JulieLove Letters of a Rookie to JulieWell, hear I am in camp after being "rough-housed on the rattlers" for 1 day and 2 nites; I was so shook-up that I'm like a loose button on an overcoatno wheres in particular. The most vivid impression...
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The Book of Three Hundred AnecdotesThe Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes - Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New SelectionGeorge I. and the Lieutenant, 121 II. and the Dutch-Innkeeper, 64 and the Court Martial, 122 III. Punctuality, 64 Carbonel the Wine Merchant, 65 The Horse Dealer, 66 Memorial to a Servant,...
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The Photoplay: A Psychological StudyThe Photoplay: A Psychological Study It is arbitrary to say where the development of the moving pictures began and it is impossible to foresee where it will lead. What invention marked the beginning? Was it the first device to introduce movement into the pictures...
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More ToastsMore Toasts - Jokes, Stories and QuotationsWhat can be more fitting than that a compiled book should have a compiled introduction? Why should one with great pains and poor prospects of success attempt to do what has already been well done? Knowing that all...
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A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)In the preface to each of his volumes of pastorals (Pastorals. After the simple Manner of Theocritus, 1717; Pastorals. viz. The Bashful Swain: and Beauty and Simplicity, 1717) Thomas Purney rushed into critical discussions with...
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A Book of the PlayA Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and CharacterThis book, as I explained in the preface to its first edition, published in 1876, is designed to serve and entertain those interested in the transactions of the Theatre. I...
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Famous Modern Ghost StoriesFamous Modern Ghost StoriesG.P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1921 Printed in the United States of America To ASHLEY HORACE THORNDIKE, Litt. D. Professor of English, Columbia University who guided my earlier studies in the supernatural Ghosts are the true...
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