Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition (advanced Course)W. Small, Lee and Shepard, 1893 - 222 Seiten |
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... mere dead knowledge . Any branch of engineering , on the other hand , is an art , which you first learn , then practise . Now Rhetoric is essentially an art . In order to write well you must , of course , govern yourself , consciously ...
... mere dead knowledge . Any branch of engineering , on the other hand , is an art , which you first learn , then practise . Now Rhetoric is essentially an art . In order to write well you must , of course , govern yourself , consciously ...
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... merely a convenient conventional term for that large but rapidly shift- ing body of words , phrases , and idioms which educated people are sure to understand and make use of in approximately the same sense . If you make use of other ...
... merely a convenient conventional term for that large but rapidly shift- ing body of words , phrases , and idioms which educated people are sure to understand and make use of in approximately the same sense . If you make use of other ...
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... merely writing , or merely speaking , or both ? How does it get its name ? What words of similar formation for instance , is a common and perfectly intelligible expression . No one who read or heard it could avoid understanding that you ...
... merely writing , or merely speaking , or both ? How does it get its name ? What words of similar formation for instance , is a common and perfectly intelligible expression . No one who read or heard it could avoid understanding that you ...
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... merely answer that they " violate good use , " but 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 ...
... merely answer that they " violate good use , " but 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 ...
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... merely as units , so to speak , which style uses either separately or in such com- binations as to form a unit of a higher order . second method is the one we shall follow . We shall first treat words as they stand alone . But a ...
... merely as units , so to speak , which style uses either separately or in such com- binations as to form a unit of a higher order . second method is the one we shall follow . We shall first treat words as they stand alone . But a ...
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Seite 75 - JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed: How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags — were they purple, his heart had been proud ! We that had loved him so, followed him...
Seite 94 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion 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.
Seite 114 - Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Seite 205 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Seite 201 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
Seite 208 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round with many voices.
Seite 70 - Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity ; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair : it is kept all the year long ; it beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity ; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. As is the saying of the wise,
Seite 67 - And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone there is tidings in his mouth.
Seite 68 - Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for. whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Seite 119 - There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.