Advanced Course of Composition and RhetoricD. Appleton and Company, 1877 |
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... leading topics of grammar , a chapter on false syntax , and an ex- haustive view of the principles relating to the use of Capitals , the too generally neglected subject of Punctuation is next taken up . As this art , when considered at ...
... leading topics of grammar , a chapter on false syntax , and an ex- haustive view of the principles relating to the use of Capitals , the too generally neglected subject of Punctuation is next taken up . As this art , when considered at ...
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... leading characteristics . Derived , as we have seen , from so many different sources , each of which has contributed some of its own peculiar fea- guage ? Why not ? To arrive at a knowledge of this , what has been done ? What proportion ...
... leading characteristics . Derived , as we have seen , from so many different sources , each of which has contributed some of its own peculiar fea- guage ? Why not ? To arrive at a knowledge of this , what has been done ? What proportion ...
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... leading principles , with such definitions and illustrations only as are absolutely essential to the proper understanding of the succeeding lessons . The classes into which words are divided with reference to their use and mutual ...
... leading principles , with such definitions and illustrations only as are absolutely essential to the proper understanding of the succeeding lessons . The classes into which words are divided with reference to their use and mutual ...
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... leading verb . The answer to the question thus formed will be the subject , and the rest of the sentence the predicate . Thus : - " Truth is eternal . " What is eternal ? Answer , truth . Truth is there- fore the subject , and is ...
... leading verb . The answer to the question thus formed will be the subject , and the rest of the sentence the predicate . Thus : - " Truth is eternal . " What is eternal ? Answer , truth . Truth is there- fore the subject , and is ...
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... leading parts , entirely independent of each other in construction and having distinct subjects and predicates . Such parts are called Members . The following sentence consists of two members : " A friend exaggerates a man's virtues ...
... leading parts , entirely independent of each other in construction and having distinct subjects and predicates . Such parts are called Members . The following sentence consists of two members : " A friend exaggerates a man's virtues ...
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Page 407 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 208 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God : he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Page 267 - Yet he was kind — or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge.
Page 101 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Page 268 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 208 - Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Page 236 - Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; 33. As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Page 331 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory!
Page 432 - Then I am paid ; And once again I do receive thee honest : — Who by repentance is not satisfied, Is nor of heaven, nor earth...
Page 267 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...