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... tion . As the old cookery book says , first catch your hare , then proceed to dress it . It is impossible to write a composition without ideas to start with . No amount of revision quite takes the place of a little pre- vision . - 12 ...
... tion . As the old cookery book says , first catch your hare , then proceed to dress it . It is impossible to write a composition without ideas to start with . No amount of revision quite takes the place of a little pre- vision . - 12 ...
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... tion , of noting carefully the things he meets with in the world around him . This will give him a fund of material to draw upon of the very best possible kind . Even if he does not wish to rely on it exclusively , it will be found a ...
... tion , of noting carefully the things he meets with in the world around him . This will give him a fund of material to draw upon of the very best possible kind . Even if he does not wish to rely on it exclusively , it will be found a ...
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... tion made less impression on his contemporaries than did Carlyle's ; but , through the wonderful Boswell , a livelier , more lovable , and more real image of him is likely to go down to succeeding ages than of the great Scotchman ...
... tion made less impression on his contemporaries than did Carlyle's ; but , through the wonderful Boswell , a livelier , more lovable , and more real image of him is likely to go down to succeeding ages than of the great Scotchman ...
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... tion of self - governing states , preeminently Dutch , which will or will not be sheltered by the Union Jack , according to the readiness of the imperial government to recognize that it has no authority over Africanders . EXERCISES 1 ...
... tion of self - governing states , preeminently Dutch , which will or will not be sheltered by the Union Jack , according to the readiness of the imperial government to recognize that it has no authority over Africanders . EXERCISES 1 ...
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... tion of the reader , impairs the effectiveness of the paragraph . Observe the effectiveness of the following admirably unified paragraph from Macaulay : The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is ...
... tion of the reader , impairs the effectiveness of the paragraph . Observe the effectiveness of the following admirably unified paragraph from Macaulay : The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is ...
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A. R. Wallace Anglo-Saxon Chronicle animals appearance argument assertions beautiful beginning called CHAPTER characters classification clauses clear common composition conclusion contract coördinate course deals deductive defined discourse distinct division effect English enthymeme example exposition expressed fact fact of murder feet following passage genus give hand Hence Hester Prynne hypothesis idea illustrate imagination inductive Inductive reasoning infer Jean-Marie kind Lafcadio Hearn less logical look method Middlemarch mind Minor premise misused narration narrative Natural Selection nature ness never observer Ordinarily paragraph periodic sentence persuasion phrases point of view possible premises principles properly means proposition prose purpose R. L. Stevenson reader reasoning regarded relation resemblance Rhetoric sense sentence species Stevenson story style SUBJECTS FOR THEMES SUGGESTED SUBJECTS Sullivan's Island syllogisms term testimonial evidence things thought tion tive topic truth verb vividness whole words writer
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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...
Page 46 - The orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired "on which side he voted?" Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm, and, rising on tiptoe, inquired in his ear, "Whether he was Federal or Democrat?
Page 46 - They crowded round him, eyeing him from head to foot with great curiosity. The orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired on which side he voted.
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.