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... Third . Does Lincoln reach the point he is after ? Does he lay stress on the most important part of the story ? The way to tell in this case is to ask if Mr. Seward caught the point of Lincoln's narrative , and if the reader gets the ...
... Third . Does Lincoln reach the point he is after ? Does he lay stress on the most important part of the story ? The way to tell in this case is to ask if Mr. Seward caught the point of Lincoln's narrative , and if the reader gets the ...
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... third topic may be assigned to two students for oral discus- sion , one boy telling what he thinks of the work of the traveling salesman , as an occupation ; and one girl discussing the profession of trained nurse as a means of ...
... third topic may be assigned to two students for oral discus- sion , one boy telling what he thinks of the work of the traveling salesman , as an occupation ; and one girl discussing the profession of trained nurse as a means of ...
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... third , that the country in which they dwell is unusually well adapted for defense against an enemy . Here is what he says , and it would be hard to find a finer example of em- phasis by proportion . three millions of people are armed ...
... third , that the country in which they dwell is unusually well adapted for defense against an enemy . Here is what he says , and it would be hard to find a finer example of em- phasis by proportion . three millions of people are armed ...
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... third of the class will be put in charge of corrections , each member of this committee receiving three letters , to be corrected by him and returned to the writer with his criticisms . All the pupils will rewrite the letter in the ...
... third of the class will be put in charge of corrections , each member of this committee receiving three letters , to be corrected by him and returned to the writer with his criticisms . All the pupils will rewrite the letter in the ...
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... third item . Emphasis will be added by a skillful handling of the third paragraph . The whole secret of successful paragraphing is to be found in this one thing , that each paragraph deals with one full thought . EXERCISES ON ...
... third item . Emphasis will be added by a skillful handling of the third paragraph . The whole secret of successful paragraphing is to be found in this one thing , that each paragraph deals with one full thought . EXERCISES ON ...
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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.