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... hand , that any rules are here laid down which one would be tempted to discard in maturer years . After all , the doctrine which teaches from these pages is not of my invention ; it is merely the formulated practice of the best writers ...
... hand , that any rules are here laid down which one would be tempted to discard in maturer years . After all , the doctrine which teaches from these pages is not of my invention ; it is merely the formulated practice of the best writers ...
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... hand examination , would also be in form an exercise in composition ; although it need not be the final stage of training , it might and should be the initial . The various forms of prose writing * are classified as Narration ...
... hand examination , would also be in form an exercise in composition ; although it need not be the final stage of training , it might and should be the initial . The various forms of prose writing * are classified as Narration ...
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... hands to be chopped off . Aretine is too trite an instance . Every one knows that all the kings in Europe were his tributaries . Nay , there is a letter of his extant , in which he makes his boasts that he had laid the 8 A HANDBOOK OF ...
... hands to be chopped off . Aretine is too trite an instance . Every one knows that all the kings in Europe were his tributaries . Nay , there is a letter of his extant , in which he makes his boasts that he had laid the 8 A HANDBOOK OF ...
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... hand , acquire for himself the good taste to perceive that he has said enough and said his best ; on the other , he must train his thinking faculties to judge that what he writes is essential to the purpose and is arranged in proper ...
... hand , acquire for himself the good taste to perceive that he has said enough and said his best ; on the other , he must train his thinking faculties to judge that what he writes is essential to the purpose and is arranged in proper ...
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... hands . - IRVING : The Stage - Coach . Accordingly , with such a tramp of his ponderous riding - boots as might of itself have been audible in the remotest of the seven gables , he [ the lieutenant - governor ] advanced to the door ...
... hands . - IRVING : The Stage - Coach . Accordingly , with such a tramp of his ponderous riding - boots as might of itself have been audible in the remotest of the seven gables , he [ the lieutenant - governor ] advanced to the door ...
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Page 299 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 44 - Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
Page 51 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 51 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 306 - SHUT, shut the door, good John! fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Page 99 - Meantime, the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself; or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant.
Page 103 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain.
Page 29 - You will observe that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity...
Page 286 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 232 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.