Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition (advanced Course)Macmillan, 1893 - 222 Seiten |
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... give to it the same meaning and the same associations that we give it . Within its limits , moreover , good use is almost absolute . If we employ unknown , uncouth , or vulgar words or expressions , our readers will not understand us ...
... give to it the same meaning and the same associations that we give it . Within its limits , moreover , good use is almost absolute . If we employ unknown , uncouth , or vulgar words or expressions , our readers will not understand us ...
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... Give an illustration . Define good use and give ex- amples of instances in which good use might deter- mine you in choosing or rejecting certain words . Is good use more like fashion or like custom ? Is good use instinctive ? What is ...
... Give an illustration . Define good use and give ex- amples of instances in which good use might deter- mine you in choosing or rejecting certain words . Is good use more like fashion or like custom ? Is good use instinctive ? What is ...
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... give me an opportunity of continuing an acquaintance begun so many years ago , under such disadvantageous circumstances . A few friends will dine with me at the Pawtucket Club , Thursday evening at seven , and it will give me great ...
... give me an opportunity of continuing an acquaintance begun so many years ago , under such disadvantageous circumstances . A few friends will dine with me at the Pawtucket Club , Thursday evening at seven , and it will give me great ...
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... give in each case a reason which will show that the difference between the good form and the bad form is a difference in fulness or definiteness of meaning , or a difference in taste that is capable of being rationally explained . 1 ...
... give in each case a reason which will show that the difference between the good form and the bad form is a difference in fulness or definiteness of meaning , or a difference in taste that is capable of being rationally explained . 1 ...
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... gives it is technically called an Impro- priety . This fault occurs in two forms , by both of which language constantly tends either to vitiation or to the establishing of new recognized meanings for old words or of new idioms in place ...
... gives it is technically called an Impro- priety . This fault occurs in two forms , by both of which language constantly tends either to vitiation or to the establishing of new recognized meanings for old words or of new idioms in place ...
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Seite 35 - And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him.
Seite 119 - preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often
Seite 206 - My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old
Seite 117 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon, and the just absolution of
Seite 70 - Now these Pilgrims, as I said, must needs go through this Fair. Well, so they did; but behold, even as they entered into the Fair, all the people in the Fair were moved, and the Town itself, as it were, in a hubbub about them; and that for several reasons.
Seite 36 - Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water will it bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Seite 94 - of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this; but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world
Seite 202 - anna ministrat— ; Turn, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem Conspexere, silent arrectisque auribus adstant; Ille regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet: Sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor, aequora postquam Prospiciens genitor coeloque invectus aperto, Flectit equos, curruque volans dat lora secundo.
Seite 200 - can suddenly fall into a new set of folds. On the whole, it is best he should not escape. It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
Seite 205 - of rallying-signs; indestructible ; really more valuable in that point of view than any other means or appliance whatsoever? We can fancy him as radiant aloft over all the Nations of Englishmen, a thousand years hence. From Paramatta, from New York, wheresoever, under what sort of Parish-Constable soever, English men