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"Now _that_ is a word which may often be joined, For _that that_ may be doubled is clear to the mind; And _that that that_ is right, is as plain to the view, As _that that that...
1. Part 1Produced by Meredith Bach, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain ma...
4. Part 4346. "Please the pigs."--(_Old Proverb._) This is a corruption from "Please the _pyx_." The _pyx_ is the receptacle which contains the consecrated wafer on Romish altars; and th...
3. Part 3176. Carefully distinguish between _sergeant_ and _serjeant_: both are pronounced _sarjant_, but the _former_ is used in a military sense, and the _latter_ applied to a lawyer....
2. Part 229. _The Three R.'s._--An ignorant and vain pedagogue, on being asked what he could teach, replied, "The three R.'s--_'ritin'_, _'rethmetic_, and _readin'_." Any persons among t...
6. Part 6The Selections in this work are principally from standard American authors, and contain everything which can ennoble the mind and fill it with exalted ideas of patriotism and vi...