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| PENMANSHIP AND PEN FLOURISHING.
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Containing Rules and Directions for Plain Business Penmanship, Off-Hand Flourishing, Short-Hand Writing and Lithographic Plates, with Suggestions on Management of Writing-Classes ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 17
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| RHETORIC, ORATORY AND COMPOSITION.
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Containing Rules for Spelling, Punctuation, Capitalization, Composition, and accompanied by Illustrations representing Ease and Grace of Position when Reading and Speaking ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 48
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Giving Spelling, Definitions and Synonyms of over Eleven Thousand Words, whereby Writers and Speakers, by Study, may Avoid Tautology in their Language ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 63
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| LETTERS OF CORRESPONDENCE.
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Including Superscriptions, Letters of Business, Sympathy, Introduction, Advice, Love, Congratulation, Friendship, Recommendation, Asking Favors, Accompanying Gifts, etc. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 79
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Giving Illustrations of Cards, Inyitations, Wedding Ceremonies, Family Records, Marriage Anniversaries, Marriage Notices, Licenses, Visiting Cards, Selections for Albums, etc. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 121
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Giving Suggestions on Introductions, Calls, Visiting, Parties, Balls, Dinners, Funerals, Carriage and Horseback Riding, the Toilet, Conversation, Courtship, Marriage, etc. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 139
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Presenting Forms of Notes, Checks, Drafts, Interest Tables, Book-keeping, Bills of Exchange, Deposit Tickets, Due Bills, Orders, Receipts, Bills of Purchase, etc. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 179
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| LEGAL BUSINESS FORMS. PAGE.
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Containing Forms of Agreements, Deeds, Leases, Mortgages, Wills, Bonds, Bills of Sale, Exemptions from Forced Sale, Collection of Debts, Reports of Committees, etc. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 194
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Giving Population, Distances, Sizes, Dates, Tables, Measures, Capacity, Weights, Value of Coins, Names, Foreign Words, and Thousands of Important Facts ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 224
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Containing forms of Constitutions, Resolutions, Calls for Meetings, Petitions to Public Bodies, Suggestions Relative to Public Celebrations, and Rules for Conducting Meetings ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 246
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Giving Suggestions on Correspondence, and Illustrations of Books, Types, Proof-Reading, accompanied by a List of Subjects to write about when Gathering News, etc ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 227.
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| LETTERING AND INSCRIPTIONS.
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Containing Alphabets, Forms, Wording, Punctuation and Arrangement of Various Kinds of Inscriptions used by Sign-Painters, Tomb-Stone Cutters and Engravers ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 280
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Including Illustrations of Rhyme, Blank Verse, Names of Different Kinds of Poetry, Rules for Making Poetic Feet, and a Vocabulary. of Rhymes ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 202
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| SELECTIONS FROM THE POETS.
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Containing many of the most Beautiful Poems in the Language,—Poems that will Live in the Ages to Come, each Teaching a Moral, and’every one a Gem ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | 319 |
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