The English Master: Or, Student's Guide to Reasoning and Composition: Exhibiting an Analytical View of the English Language, of the Human Mind, and of the Principles of Fine WritingLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 399 pagina's |
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Pagina xxi
... possessing rank and fortune might be in learning or philosophy , the great body of the people were sunk in the grossest ignorance , and degraded by the most childish super- stition ; their minds were uninformed , and their conduct was ...
... possessing rank and fortune might be in learning or philosophy , the great body of the people were sunk in the grossest ignorance , and degraded by the most childish super- stition ; their minds were uninformed , and their conduct was ...
Pagina xxv
... possess , except such as are obtained through the medium of the senses ; it is also the means of com- munication in every interchange of human thought , from the lowest species of conversation , to the highest flights of genius , as ...
... possess , except such as are obtained through the medium of the senses ; it is also the means of com- munication in every interchange of human thought , from the lowest species of conversation , to the highest flights of genius , as ...
Pagina xlviii
... possess ; that , though accidental circumstances may in some instances have led to particular disco- veries , these circumstances would have been of no use , had curiosity not induced men to make repeated experiments . xlviii INTRODUCTION .
... possess ; that , though accidental circumstances may in some instances have led to particular disco- veries , these circumstances would have been of no use , had curiosity not induced men to make repeated experiments . xlviii INTRODUCTION .
Pagina 4
... possessed by man , by which he is enabled at once to recall what- ever can in any way tend to prove what he affirms or denies , is the distinguishing characteristic of human reason , and could not be exercised without language . But ...
... possessed by man , by which he is enabled at once to recall what- ever can in any way tend to prove what he affirms or denies , is the distinguishing characteristic of human reason , and could not be exercised without language . But ...
Pagina 5
... possess some means of communicating their sentiments or desires to each other ; and for this purpose nothing seems so well calculated as language . It is indeed possible for men to make themselves in some degree understood by signs and ...
... possess some means of communicating their sentiments or desires to each other ; and for this purpose nothing seems so well calculated as language . It is indeed possible for men to make themselves in some degree understood by signs and ...
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Pagina 313 - And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Pagina 372 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Pagina 344 - And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures ; opening and alleging, " that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead ; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
Pagina 297 - For a thousand years in Thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Pagina 309 - Oh spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born ! See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring : See lofty Lebanon his head advance, See nodding forests on the mountains dance : See spicy clouds from lowly Saron rise, And Carmel's flower)- top perfumes the skies ! Hark ! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers ; Prepare the way ! a God, a God appears : A God, a God ! the vocal hills reply, The rocks proclaim the approaching Deity.
Pagina 321 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have...
Pagina 183 - How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet ! now dying all away, Now pealing loud again and louder still, Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on.
Pagina 371 - Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth And bade to form her infant mind.
Pagina 371 - The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...
Pagina 313 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a 1 Judges ix.