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An alphabet of history (1905)

Nesbit, Wilbur D. (Wilbur Dick), 1871-1927, Young, Ellsworth, [from old catalog] illus · San Francisco, P. Elder and company · leaf 24

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griefs And also had a little fun —He kept his eye upon his chiefs And tells the things they might have doneIf they had not done what they did. Ah, if each person now should keep hisOwn diary and raise the lid As did this honest Samuel Pepys! And so, you see, he made a name Whereon the critics… … UINTILIAN Quintilian, years and years ago, Was It on oratory;Demosthenes and CiceroHe studied con amore;He ran an elocution school And taught the Roman lispersThe reason and the rote and rule For requesting father, dear father, to come homewith me now, in most pathetic whispers. Twas he who showed…

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