Beginnings of Rhetoric and Composition: Including Practical Exercises in EnglishAmerican Book Company, 1902 - 522 sider |
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... forms , and on better rather than on worse modes of expression . The " Beginnings " is , however , notwithstand- ing the omission of the Introduction , the section entitled " Additional Examples , " and the Appendix , which together ...
... forms , and on better rather than on worse modes of expression . The " Beginnings " is , however , notwithstand- ing the omission of the Introduction , the section entitled " Additional Examples , " and the Appendix , which together ...
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... FORMS OF EXPRESSION CHAPTER I. GOOD ENGLISH DEFINED II . PUNCTUATION III . LETTER - WRITING IV . NOUNS V. PRONOUNS VI . VERBS VII . ARTICLES VIII . ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS IX . PREPOSITIONS X. CONJUNCTIONS - PART II . ESSENTIALS OF ...
... FORMS OF EXPRESSION CHAPTER I. GOOD ENGLISH DEFINED II . PUNCTUATION III . LETTER - WRITING IV . NOUNS V. PRONOUNS VI . VERBS VII . ARTICLES VIII . ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS IX . PREPOSITIONS X. CONJUNCTIONS - PART II . ESSENTIALS OF ...
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... EXPRESSION I. ESSENTIAL QUALITIES DEfined II . UNITY Importance of Unity Unity in point of Substance Unity in point of Form 412 415 415 416 423 III . CLEARNESS 431 Importance of Clearness 431 ... FORMS OF EXPRESSION BEGINNINGS OF 6 CONTENTS.
... EXPRESSION I. ESSENTIAL QUALITIES DEfined II . UNITY Importance of Unity Unity in point of Substance Unity in point of Form 412 415 415 416 423 III . CLEARNESS 431 Importance of Clearness 431 ... FORMS OF EXPRESSION BEGINNINGS OF 6 CONTENTS.
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... words from other languages ; but it will probably reject , as it has rejected in the past , many candidates for admission . Among the foreign expressions that cannot now be ... kind of family wagon , right for " very 10 FORMS OF EXPRESSION.
... words from other languages ; but it will probably reject , as it has rejected in the past , many candidates for admission . Among the foreign expressions that cannot now be ... kind of family wagon , right for " very 10 FORMS OF EXPRESSION.
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... expressions that disturb some grammarians are the following : " as it were , " " at sixes and sevens , ' " " how do you do ? " in the thick of it , " " the long and the short of it , " " under the circumstances ... FORMS OF EXPRESSION.
... expressions that disturb some grammarians are the following : " as it were , " " at sixes and sevens , ' " " how do you do ? " in the thick of it , " " the long and the short of it , " " under the circumstances ... FORMS OF EXPRESSION.
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adverb American authors better blank the proper called choice clear comma composition correct Darcy DEAR dependent clause distinction English plurals example EXERCISE fact fault FORMS OF EXPRESSION forms suggested friends George Eliot gerund Give the meaning HILL'S RHET horse idea implies Insert Julius Cæsar lady language Latin living look mind Miss never noun obscure omitted once original or quoted Oxford English Dictionary paragraph parenthesis passage past participle periodic sentence person represented persons or things phrase political possessive preferable preposition present pronoun properly question quotations reader relative clause sense sentence under II Shylock Silas Marner simple futurity singular sometimes speak speech story subjunctive tell tence thought tion to-day town TROLLOPE unity usage usually verb volition vulgarisms wish woman writer young
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Side 164 - And only the Master shall praise us. and only the Master shall blame: And no one shall work for money. and no one shall work for fame. But each for the joy of the working. and each. in his separate star. Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
Side 469 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Side 472 - Events which shortsighted politicians -ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe.
Side 360 - I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. — He gave a deep sigh. — I saw the iron enter into his soul ! — I burst into tears. I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn.
Side 405 - After all these years I can picture that old time to myself now, just as it was then: the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer's morning; the streets empty, or pretty nearly so; one or two clerks sitting in front of the Water Street stores, with their splint-bottomed chairs tilted back against the...
Side 359 - I took a single captive, and, having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.
Side 157 - It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't — it's only just a frog." And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, "H'm — so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?
Side 359 - He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction.
Side 382 - As I WALKED through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream.
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