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... present book . In pursuance of such an object I have consistently refrained from touching upon the theory of Rhetoric , or upon the relations of Rhetoric to Grammar , Logic , and Esthetics , and have tried to state - in the plainest way ...
... present book . In pursuance of such an object I have consistently refrained from touching upon the theory of Rhetoric , or upon the relations of Rhetoric to Grammar , Logic , and Esthetics , and have tried to state - in the plainest way ...
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... Present 97 CHAPTER XI . PROPRIETY . National Speech 98 Present Speech 99 Reputable Speech 100 Newly - coined Verbs 101 Abbreviations Useless Words . Misused Words Foreign Words 102 103 104 105 Some Grammatical Inelegancies Harsh and ...
... Present 97 CHAPTER XI . PROPRIETY . National Speech 98 Present Speech 99 Reputable Speech 100 Newly - coined Verbs 101 Abbreviations Useless Words . Misused Words Foreign Words 102 103 104 105 Some Grammatical Inelegancies Harsh and ...
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... present book , therefore , nearly all the quotations intro- duced to illustrate paragraph - writing are of some length . There are a few exceptions in Chapter III . , but they are introduced merely to exemplify the quality of extreme ...
... present book , therefore , nearly all the quotations intro- duced to illustrate paragraph - writing are of some length . There are a few exceptions in Chapter III . , but they are introduced merely to exemplify the quality of extreme ...
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... present exceedingly imperfect acquaintance with the facts , any theory in chem- istry or geology is altogether accurate , is absurd : it cannot be true.- S. T. COLERIDGE : Table Talk , ii . 198 . Observe how every clause and every word ...
... present exceedingly imperfect acquaintance with the facts , any theory in chem- istry or geology is altogether accurate , is absurd : it cannot be true.- S. T. COLERIDGE : Table Talk , ii . 198 . Observe how every clause and every word ...
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... present moment of writing , is observed in the passage from De Quincey , § 3 ; see also Stanley , § 23 . In Description it is usually advisable to arrest the reader's attention by putting the most conspicuous feature at the beginning of ...
... present moment of writing , is observed in the passage from De Quincey , § 3 ; see also Stanley , § 23 . In Description it is usually advisable to arrest the reader's attention by putting the most conspicuous feature at the beginning of ...
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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.