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... illustrate more fully what is to be avoided and what is to be attained . Predicate ( Latin predicare , to publish or state ) means simply to affirm in regard to something that already is , but it is fre- quently found in the sense of ...
... illustrate more fully what is to be avoided and what is to be attained . Predicate ( Latin predicare , to publish or state ) means simply to affirm in regard to something that already is , but it is fre- quently found in the sense of ...
Page 69
... illustrate the sub- ject a few synonyms are here explained , but they must be regarded , by those who would attain proficiency , as the merest beginning . 1. Visitor , Visitant . Visitor or visitant is one who pays a visit ; but a ...
... illustrate the sub- ject a few synonyms are here explained , but they must be regarded , by those who would attain proficiency , as the merest beginning . 1. Visitor , Visitant . Visitor or visitant is one who pays a visit ; but a ...
Page 140
... illustrate a prosaic subject ; as , " Consols soared to 944. " 8. Incongruous statements should not , in serious composition , be united in the same sentence ; as , " He was a loving husband , a tender father , and a good shot . " 9. A ...
... illustrate a prosaic subject ; as , " Consols soared to 944. " 8. Incongruous statements should not , in serious composition , be united in the same sentence ; as , " He was a loving husband , a tender father , and a good shot . " 9. A ...
Page 149
... illustrates how every sen- tence should bear on the topic sentence : " What , then , are the proper encouragements of genius ? ( Topic sentence . ) I answer , subsistence and respect ; for these are re- wards congenial to nature . Every ...
... illustrates how every sen- tence should bear on the topic sentence : " What , then , are the proper encouragements of genius ? ( Topic sentence . ) I answer , subsistence and respect ; for these are re- wards congenial to nature . Every ...
Page 150
... illustrate the same idea , these sentences should , as far as possible , be formed alike . Example .- " We must not omit to mention that those who were afterwards the most distinguished ornaments of the King's party , supported the bill ...
... illustrate the same idea , these sentences should , as far as possible , be formed alike . Example .- " We must not omit to mention that those who were afterwards the most distinguished ornaments of the King's party , supported the bill ...
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Page 203 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty : and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 204 - The hills Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 251 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him ; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Page 204 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 213 - And, seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me.
Page 198 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Page 250 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 187 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful...
Page 262 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 233 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent ; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death.