curious inventions
notes (detail), May 2017
The gentleman withdrew from society.
Having withdrawn from society, he spent his time in making curious inventions...
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ex, “Verbs, with their participles and gerundives, applied,”
in The New Speller and Definer ; with the structures of language, systematically arranged, for exercises in applying words on the principles of Hazen’s Practical Grammar. By Edward Hazen, A.M., author of The Symbolical Spelling-Book, The Grammatic Readers, The Practical Grammar, Popular Technology, etc. (Philadelphia 1851) : 230
The Ohio State University copy, digitized May 21, 2013
opens to same page spread, at Hathitrust
tags:
doodles; gpoy; scribble; withdrawal
E. Hazen, “Verbs, with their participles and gerundives, applied” (1851)