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LECTURES
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Lectures on the English language
George P. Marsh · 1872 · Scanned text · Free in the US
231,793 words · about 16 h 14 min to read
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1872, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/15010441); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)
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- Author
- George P. Marsh
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1872
- Length
- 231,793 words · about 16 h 14 min
- Sections
- 9 reader sections
- Text
- Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
- Rights
- Public domain in the United States
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Contents (9)
- Front matter under 1 min
- Preface about 2 h 39 min
- I about 4 min
- II II about 10 min
- chap. I., Seventy-three per cent. Tennyson, The Lotus Eaters, Eighty-seven per cent about 2 h 2 min
- III about 26 min
- IV about 9 h 56 min
- Appendix about 43 min
- Index about 13 min
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