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... language . 4. Skill in literary criticism . 5. The formation of a good style . By the philosophy of rhetoric , I here refer to those princi- ples in the science of the philosophy of mind , and in the phi- losophy of language , on which ...
... language . 4. Skill in literary criticism . 5. The formation of a good style . By the philosophy of rhetoric , I here refer to those princi- ples in the science of the philosophy of mind , and in the phi- losophy of language , on which ...
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... language . Here I refer both to the choice of words , so far as purity and propriety are concerned , and to the construction of sentences . - Instruction in this part of rhetoric should be conducted with reference to two points , - to ...
... language . Here I refer both to the choice of words , so far as purity and propriety are concerned , and to the construction of sentences . - Instruction in this part of rhetoric should be conducted with reference to two points , - to ...
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... languages . Every one knows , that in this way a command of languages is acquired . And I would extend the meaning of the phrase , so as to include , not only that copia verborum , and that power of nice discrimination in the use of ...
... languages . Every one knows , that in this way a command of languages is acquired . And I would extend the meaning of the phrase , so as to include , not only that copia verborum , and that power of nice discrimination in the use of ...
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... language , possessed by these two writers . From this statement , we may learn the objects of atten- tion to the critic , in examining a literary production . He would judge of the value of the thoughts , of the correctness of the ...
... language , possessed by these two writers . From this statement , we may learn the objects of atten- tion to the critic , in examining a literary production . He would judge of the value of the thoughts , of the correctness of the ...
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... language is next made the object of attention , so far as this is necessary for the accurate and perspicuous conveyance of the thoughts . In the remaining part of the work , the qualities of a good style are enumerated , and the ...
... language is next made the object of attention , so far as this is necessary for the accurate and perspicuous conveyance of the thoughts . In the remaining part of the work , the qualities of a good style are enumerated , and the ...
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Page 288 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Page 307 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Page 74 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
Page 72 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door ; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Page 292 - ... get to heaven and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; and then it made a prosperous flight and did rise and sing as if it had learned music and motion from an angel as he passed...
Page 112 - Him ! cut off by Providence in the hour of overwhelming anxiety and thick gloom ; falling ere he saw the star of his country rise ; pouring out his generous blood like water before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ! — how shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle the utterance of thy name ? Our poor work may perish, but thine shall endure. This monument may moulder away ; the solid ground it rests upon may sink down to a level with the sea ; but thy memory...
Page 75 - The sun gradually wheeled his broad disk down into the west. The wide bosom of the Tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple green, and from that into the deep blue of the midheaven. A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of the precipices...
Page 109 - Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 244 - You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion; how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage; how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.
Page 259 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family : I should have left a son, who, in all the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every liberal accomplishment...