Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition (advanced Course)W. Small, Lee and Shepard, 1893 - 222 pagina's |
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Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition (advanced Course) George Rice Carpenter Volledige weergave - 1893 |
Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition (advanced Course) George Rice Carpenter Volledige weergave - 1893 |
Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition (advanced Course) George Rice Carpenter Volledige weergave - 1893 |
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Æneid Ahimaaz American Aristotle authors beauty called Celt century CHAPTER character clauses clear coherence common connotation definite Dictionary difference Divine Comedy Elegance elements of style emotions Emphasis English essay example expression fact faults feel following extracts following passages give habit halma hand hydrazines idea idiom illustrations instance instructor interest J. H. Newman king language Latin learning Literature living logical long day wanes loose sentence matter means ment merely metaphor mind nation nature never Notice noun paragraph paragraph-structure periodic sentence persons Philistine phrases poetry principles produced profes Professor pronouns punctuation QUALITIES OF STYLE reader Rhetoric schools securing Seditio senatorial courtesy sense short sentences solecisms speak speech structure student sure taste tence theme things thought tion unity vocabulary W. E. Henley whole composition words writing young
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Pagina 94 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Pagina 75 - LOST LEADER. Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote...
Pagina 205 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Pagina 208 - Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Pagina 201 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
Pagina 70 - Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity ; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair : it is kept all the year long ; it beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity ; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. As is the saying of the wise,
Pagina 67 - And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone there is tidings in his mouth.
Pagina 68 - Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for. whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Pagina 119 - There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.
Pagina 68 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God...