Precis Writing for Beginners. E-book. Formato PDF Guy N. Pocock   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The object of this little book is to teach précis writ ing from the very start. It has been found from experience that the average boy who in the Lower Fifth Form starts making précis of Government Blue Books and Collected Correspondence, will ?ounder about for a whole term without understanding what he is really expected to do.

India in Greece, or Truth in Mythology: Containing the Sources of the Hellenic Race, the Colonisation of Egypt and Palestine, the Wars of the Grand Lama, and the Bud'histic Propaganda in Greece. E-book. Formato PDF Edward Pococke   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I would here repeat a remark made on another occasion2 on the historical basis Of mythology. Perhaps within the whole compass of mythology there is no system altogether more plausible than the Grecian. Its coherence betrays art in arrangement, but weakness in the mam incidents. A basis, however, it undoubtedly possessed, which was neither of an inventive nor fictitious character. What that basis was, is certainly not to be eliminated from either poet or logographer, or historian, independent of extraneous aids. Such aids are presented to the inquiring mind in those two most durable records Of a nation, — its language and its monuments. These adjuncts, though Of foreign origin, are.

Modern Poetry. E-book. Formato PDF Guy Noel Pocock   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Sincere thanks are due to the following publishers, authors, and holders of copyrights, for their kindness in allowing the publication of the poems in this book. The editor has been anxious to include what is best in modern poetry, and most suitable for young people, and the kindness and courtesy they have shown to him in giving all facilities, forwarding letters, and so forth, has been most helpful.