Composition and Rhetoric by Practice: With Exercises, Adapted for Use in High Schools and Colleges |
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... illustrated in subsequent Lessons , should be constantly turned to use , so that no stereotyped form may be allowed to appear . 3. Particular and general terms should be introduced , each when most effective . 4. Sentences of all kinds ...
... illustrated in subsequent Lessons , should be constantly turned to use , so that no stereotyped form may be allowed to appear . 3. Particular and general terms should be introduced , each when most effective . 4. Sentences of all kinds ...
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... illustrated by deeds of higher fame and more useful import , than ever were done within these walls . 18. Let us inquire whether the present system of education is harmful to the present generation or not . 19. As Addison's subjects are ...
... illustrated by deeds of higher fame and more useful import , than ever were done within these walls . 18. Let us inquire whether the present system of education is harmful to the present generation or not . 19. As Addison's subjects are ...
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... illustrated in the preceding Lesson . 1. We were in a sloping channel which had sloping banks on each side . 2. A man who has started in life on wrong principles may yet learn the true lesson . 3. Those who work should be paid . 4. The ...
... illustrated in the preceding Lesson . 1. We were in a sloping channel which had sloping banks on each side . 2. A man who has started in life on wrong principles may yet learn the true lesson . 3. Those who work should be paid . 4. The ...
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... illustrated in the preceding Lesson . 1. The majority of the passengers had been made aware of the state of affairs . 2. Passe - partout made a grimace when he gazed at his elegant but thin slippers . 3. The animal had been purchased ...
... illustrated in the preceding Lesson . 1. The majority of the passengers had been made aware of the state of affairs . 2. Passe - partout made a grimace when he gazed at his elegant but thin slippers . 3. The animal had been purchased ...
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... illustrated in the preceding Lesson . 1. Lying is a great sin against God . He gave us a tongue to speak the truth , not falsehood . 2. Their work was not yet finished . The Iroquois came again upon them . 3. They bore her along the ...
... illustrated in the preceding Lesson . 1. Lying is a great sin against God . He gave us a tongue to speak the truth , not falsehood . 2. Their work was not yet finished . The Iroquois came again upon them . 3. They bore her along the ...
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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 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 205 - Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
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 249 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 202 - I was aye a truant bird, that thought his home a cage; For my father was a soldier, and even as a child My heart leaped forth to hear him tell of struggles fierce and wild; And when he died, and left us to divide his scanty hoard, I let them take whate'er they would, but kept my father's sword, And with boyish love I hung it where the bright light used to shine, On the cottage wall at Bingen — calm Bingen on the Rhine ! "Tell my sister not to weep for me, and sob with drooping head, When the troops...
Page 262 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 203 - Go forth, under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice: — 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, And, lost each human trace...