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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 556

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erses were easily memorized, and sometimes gave abasis for a spelling lesson. There were no graded readers until this century. Writing in some neighborhoods was taught only to boys, on the generalground that it was an unnecessary accomplishment for the sex which neverengaged in business. Ink was… … INTERIOR OF SCHOOLROOM. SLEEPY HOLLOW. N. (Courtesy of The School Journal, New York.) The master set the copies by writing a lesson which was to be imitated bythe pupils. There was no set style, but usually the teacher wrote a bold,legible hand which in time was acquired with a fair degree of…

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