MAYNARD, MERRILL & Co., PUBLISHERS,

43, 45, AND 47 EAST TENTH STREET.

New Series, No. 93. November 21, 1892. Published Semi-weekly. Subscription Price, $10.
Entered at Post Office, New York, as Second-class Matter.

Spelling, Language, Grammar, Composition, Literature.

REED'S WORD LESSONS-A COMPLETE SPELLER.

REED'S INTRODUCTORY LANGUAGE WORK.

REED & KELLOGG'S GRADED LESSONS IN ENGLISH.
REED & KELLOGG'S HIGHER LESSONS IN ENGLISH.
REED & KELLOGG'S ONE-BOOK COURSE IN ENGLISH.
KELLOGG'S TEXT-BOOK ON RHETORIC.

KELLOGG'S TEXT-BOOK ON ENGLISH LITERATURE

In the preparation of this series the authors have had one object
clearly in view-to so develop the study of the English language as
to present a complete, progressive course, from the Spelling-Book to
the study of English Literature. The troublesome contradictions
which arise in using books arranged by different authors on these
subjects, and which require much time for explanation in the school
room, will be avoided by the use of the above "Complete Course."
Teachers are earnestly invited to examine these books.

MAYNARD, MERRILL & CO., PUBlishers,

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COPYRIGHT, 1893.

BY MAYNARD, MERRILL & CO.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
JUN 26 1961

A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF BURKE.

EDMUND BURKE was born of Irish parents, in Dublin, 1729, or, according to E. J. Payne, one of his editors, Jan. 1, 1730, O.S.; was one of fifteen children; father, a solicitor in good practice; mother, a Miss Nagle before marriage, a Roman Catholic; her daughters brought up in that faith, but Edmund and his brothers were bred in their father's religion; a pupil in 1741 at Balitore, 30 miles from Dublin, of the Quaker, Abraham Shackleton; honored and loved this teacher and his son; an omniverous reader, passionately fond of Virgil especially; took his bachelor's degree at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1748; a contemporary there of Goldsmith; went to London, 1750; supported there by his father for six years, during which time he was studying law; thought that law "does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together, but it is not apt to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion ;" a member of Macklin's debating society, 1754; gave up all notion of law as a profession and adopted literature.

Married, in 1756 probably, a Miss Nugent, a Catholic, though conforming afterwards to her husband's religion. Birrell says, "Burke's wife was also the offspring of a 'mixed marriage,' only in her case it was the father who was a Catholic; consequently, Mr. and Mrs. Burke were of the same way of thinking, but each had a parent of the other way;" Vindication of Natural Society (in imitation and in ridicule of Bolingbroke's attack upon Christianity), and A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful, 1756; allowed £200 a year by his father, 1756; editor, 1758-1788, at £100 a year, of the Annual Register, a summary of the great events of the world; Account of European Settlements in America, and Abridgment of English History, 1757; secretary of the Chief Secretary of Ireland, Wm. Gerard Hamilton, 1761-63; Hamilton got Burke a pension of £300