This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...like a schoolmaster and an old man, and looked grave, and that some of the younger children thought I was trying to get them into a regular schoolroom, and drill them in dry, hard studies, which they had enough of already. If I did talk in that way, it was all a mistake, and I am sorry for it; for I doubt if there is a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...like a schoolmaster and an old man, and looked grave, and that some of the younger children thought I was trying to get them into a regular schoolroom, and drill them in dry, hard studies, which they had enough of already. If I did talk in that way, it was all a mistake, and I am sorry for it; for I doubt if there is a boy in all England, able to read Robinson Crusoe, who is younger than I am in many things 1 am trying to learn, or who sits daily on a lower bench learning his A, B, C. This is the real fact; and I hope it will prove to the children I talk to from month to month that I am not a hardfaced schoolmaster, but a fellow-pupil just beginning to learn the letters by heart which millions of children, not ten years old at this moment, in distant countries, were able to master long ago. Now, I have had a great curiosity to know what kinds of A, B, C they had to commit to memory, so that I could enter into their feelings a little, and see also if they had a harder time of it than English and American children in getting through their alphabets. So I am studying every day, like a six-year old boy, at these alphabets, trying to follow them around the globe. In the last two years I have learned six of them, all belonging to Africa and Asia, and have now reached India, and hope to travel through China and Japan, and cross over to America from that great island, and see if I can master the queer, strange letters which the Cherokee Indians worked out to put their language in. And now, the further I go in the letters which the children of the wide, wide world have to learn, the more I am filled with wonder at the wisdom and power of the Alphabet. It is the greatest thing that man ever made oh earth. Indeed, one might well doubt if man ever made it at all, or ma...
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Add this copy of Chips From Many Blocks to cart. $36.50, good condition, Sold by BookHouse On-Line rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1878 by Rose-Belford.
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Good+ First Canadian edition. Good+ hardcover in original green boards, Buritt was an American diplomat, philanthropist and social activist on issues including abolition, temperance, and headed several groups of radical pacifists. He was a prolific lecturer, journalist and writer, who traveled widely in the US and Europe. These are his final offerings. He died the year after publication. The articles include: International Questions; The Eastern Question (Russia's ambitions); National questions; Economic and industrial (utilizing waste materials etc); Fireside talks with School children; Educational topics; Religious and Moral; Little Talks with Small Children on the Law of Kindness. All from a dedicated world citizen of the 19th century. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Add this copy of Chips From Many Blocks to cart. $49.00, fair condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1878 by Rose-Belford Publishing Company.
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G-(Ex-library, with usual library markings, bookplate on front inside cover, pocket and discoloration at back inside cover, pages have tanned, some signatures are loosening, cover has sunned unevenly, cover shows moderate edge and corner wear." Purple-fuschia cloth, gilt letters on spine and stamped cover, 294 [10] pp., Elihu Burritt (1810-1879) was an American diplomat and essayist for social activism. Here he expresses his opinions and theories on contemporary issues of his day.
Add this copy of Chips From Many Blocks to cart. $66.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Wentworth Press.
