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Edward Fulton. Το My Friend and Colleague Thomas Arkle Clark PREFACE All that the author feels called upon to say.
Edward Fulton. Το My Friend and Colleague Thomas Arkle Clark PREFACE All that the author feels called upon to say.
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Edward Fulton. PREFACE All that the author feels called upon to say in antici- pation of the charge that he has added one more to the already overcrowded list of text - books on rhetoric is that it was intended primarily for use in his ...
Edward Fulton. PREFACE All that the author feels called upon to say in antici- pation of the charge that he has added one more to the already overcrowded list of text - books on rhetoric is that it was intended primarily for use in his ...
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... called the isolated paragraph , though it should , in strictness , be regarded not as a paragraph , but as a whole composition . Practically , the paragraph is the unit of discourse ; for , although the sentence is the ultimate unit of ...
... called the isolated paragraph , though it should , in strictness , be regarded not as a paragraph , but as a whole composition . Practically , the paragraph is the unit of discourse ; for , although the sentence is the ultimate unit of ...
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... called rock , with which we are all familiar as " chalk . " Thus the chalk is no unimportant element in the masonry of the earth's crust , and it impresses a peculiar stamp , vary- ing with the conditions to which it is exposed , on the ...
... called rock , with which we are all familiar as " chalk . " Thus the chalk is no unimportant element in the masonry of the earth's crust , and it impresses a peculiar stamp , vary- ing with the conditions to which it is exposed , on the ...
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... called conventional paragraphs . The separate speeches of each charac- ter are set off in paragraphs by themselves , and the reader is thus enabled to differentiate the various characters presented . The conventional paragraph may ...
... called conventional paragraphs . The separate speeches of each charac- ter are set off in paragraphs by themselves , and the reader is thus enabled to differentiate the various characters presented . The conventional paragraph may ...
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Page 183 - He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him; and he concurs with their movements rather than takes the initiative himself.
Page 60 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Page 238 - No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness...
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Page 142 - Be that as it might, the scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy.
Page 172 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir...
Page 219 - But that the legislature can repeal statutes creating private corporations, or confirming to them property already acquired under the faith of previous laws, and by such repeal can vest the property of such corporations exclusively in the State, or dispose of the same to such purposes as they may please, without the consent or default of the corporators...
Page 165 - MANY years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy ; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want. To avoid the mortification consequent upon his disasters, he left New Orleans, the city of his forefathers, and took up his residence at Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, South Carolina.
Page 149 - The good man, he was now getting old, towards sixty perhaps ; and gave you the idea of a life that had been full of sufferings ; a life heavy-laden, half- vanquished, still swimming painfully in seas of manifold physical and other bewilderment.