Elegant extracts, or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose
Subtitle: selected for the improvement of scholars at classical and other schools, in the art of speaking, in reading, thinking, composing, and in the conduct of life
Edition: 1st American ed.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 20040
Publisher: Printed by Patrick Byrne
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
Subjects: English essays
Other titles: Elegant tracts.; Useful and entertaining passages in prose.
Notes: "To this edition is added A short system of geography, from Sharpe's translation of Holberg's Introduction to universal history, and a chronological table of remarkable events ..."

Authorship attributed by Shaw & Shoemaker to Vicesimus Knox.

Shaw & Shoemaker 20040

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Table of contents: title: Book the first. Moral and religious; title: Book the second. Classical and historical; title: Book the third. Orations and characters; title: Book the fourth. Narratives, dialogues, letters, sentences, with other miscellaneous pieces, amusing and instructive; title: A system of geography; title: A chronological table.