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DEVELOPMENT

OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE

AND

LANGUAGE

BY

ALFRED H. WELSH, A.M.

MEMBER OF VICTORIA INSTITUTE, THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN
AUTHOR OF "ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH," "COMPLETE RHETORIC,"

ETC.

VOLUME I

All profitable study is a silent disputation-an intellectual gymnastic; and the most
improving books are precisely those which most excite the reader. . . . To read pas-
sively, to learn, - is, in reality, not to learn at all.-SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON

ELEVENTH THOUSAND.

CHICAGO

S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY

1890.

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
DAVIS

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