Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and Verse |
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... persons ? Habitual inactivity both of mind and body ? That tranquil state of mind in which the agitations of anxiety and dis appointment are no longer felt ? That state of mind which suffers no dismay from danger ? The dissolution of ...
... persons ? Habitual inactivity both of mind and body ? That tranquil state of mind in which the agitations of anxiety and dis appointment are no longer felt ? That state of mind which suffers no dismay from danger ? The dissolution of ...
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... person is bitten by a mad , or rabid ani- mal , he expresses the same dread of water , and hence the disease is called , as I said , hydrophobia . Charles . I thank you , Henry , for giving me all this infor- mation . I shall tell it ...
... person is bitten by a mad , or rabid ani- mal , he expresses the same dread of water , and hence the disease is called , as I said , hydrophobia . Charles . I thank you , Henry , for giving me all this infor- mation . I shall tell it ...
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... persons , places , streets , mountains , lakes , rivers , ships , & c . , and adjectives derived from them , should begin with a capital letter . The first word of a quotation after a colon , or when it is in a direct form , should ...
... persons , places , streets , mountains , lakes , rivers , ships , & c . , and adjectives derived from them , should begin with a capital letter . The first word of a quotation after a colon , or when it is in a direct form , should ...
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... person . You are not to suppose that the fate either of single persons of empires or of the whole earth depends on the influence of the stars . Insert the Comma , Colon , and Semicolon where they belong in the following sentences ...
... person . You are not to suppose that the fate either of single persons of empires or of the whole earth depends on the influence of the stars . Insert the Comma , Colon , and Semicolon where they belong in the following sentences ...
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... person's concerns in life , but difficulties relate to the facility of accom- plishing an undertaking , and imply ... person and the object he has in view ; and impediment signifies the thing which entan- gles the feet . All of these ...
... person's concerns in life , but difficulties relate to the facility of accom- plishing an undertaking , and imply ... person and the object he has in view ; and impediment signifies the thing which entan- gles the feet . All of these ...
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accent acute accent adverb Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochee truth verse virtue words writer written young