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... require- Numerous references will be found in the book to the recommendations of the Board of Regents of New York , the State Board of New Jersey , the Illinois Asso- ciation of Teachers of English , and the Joint Commission on the ...
... require- Numerous references will be found in the book to the recommendations of the Board of Regents of New York , the State Board of New Jersey , the Illinois Asso- ciation of Teachers of English , and the Joint Commission on the ...
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... requires that the leading idea have the right of way . You must subordi- nate everything else to the development of this chief thought . In arranging your notes for the article you are writing , or the speech you are preparing , there ...
... requires that the leading idea have the right of way . You must subordi- nate everything else to the development of this chief thought . In arranging your notes for the article you are writing , or the speech you are preparing , there ...
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... requiring them to " query , " he can choose the best man out of those who reply . In this case , however , there is no response and he now turns to the telephone and keeps the long - distance lines hot for a while , but as " Central ...
... requiring them to " query , " he can choose the best man out of those who reply . In this case , however , there is no response and he now turns to the telephone and keeps the long - distance lines hot for a while , but as " Central ...
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... require the use of the comma in at least such cases as the following . ( a ) To set off words of address : Charles , where are you going ? Mr. Chairman , I second the motion . 1 From the English Syllabus , Board of Regents , New York ...
... require the use of the comma in at least such cases as the following . ( a ) To set off words of address : Charles , where are you going ? Mr. Chairman , I second the motion . 1 From the English Syllabus , Board of Regents , New York ...
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... require . What to Keep . In this way fugitive poems , good stories and anecdotes , bits of description , well written accounts of scenes and events , quotations from favorite authors , important speeches and addresses , and informa ...
... require . What to Keep . In this way fugitive poems , good stories and anecdotes , bits of description , well written accounts of scenes and events , quotations from favorite authors , important speeches and addresses , and informa ...
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Page 351 - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Page 392 - I gazed — and gazed — but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought : For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude ; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Page 336 - I went up to a rising ground to look farther. I went up the shore and down the shore ; but it was all one, I could see no other impression but that one. I went to it again to see if there were any more, and to observe if it might not be my fancy ; but there was no room for that, for there was exactly the very print of a foot, toes, heel, and every part of a foot ; how it came thither I knew not, nor could in the least imagine.
Page 372 - ... that sensibility of principle that chastity of...
Page 334 - And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead.
Page 423 - THE night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Page 408 - BLANC, The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again...
Page 339 - The Pilgrim's Progress, In The Similitude Of A Dream AS I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a Dream.
Page 418 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Page 100 - I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest. She will devote herself to showing that she knows how to make honorable and fruitful use of the territory she has, and she must regard it as one of the duties of friendship to see that from no quarter are material interests made superior to human liberty and national opportunity.