Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples. For the Use of Common Schools and Academies. Including, Also, a Succinct History of the English Language, and of British and American Literatrue from the Earliest to the Present Times. On the Basis of the Recent Works of Alexander Reid and Robert Connel; with Large Additions from Other Sources |
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... ( continued ) IV . Derivative Words V. Variety of Expression VI . Variety of Expression ( continued ) VII . Words suggested to form Sentences IV . STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES . SECT . I. Variety of Construction . II . Simple Sentences III ...
... ( continued ) IV . Derivative Words V. Variety of Expression VI . Variety of Expression ( continued ) VII . Words suggested to form Sentences IV . STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES . SECT . I. Variety of Construction . II . Simple Sentences III ...
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... ( continued ) III . Specimens of Letter - writing 113 114 114 117 . 120 129 . 130 133 II . Criticisms on Everett , Webster , Calhoun , and Clav 136 . 134 II . Of Dialogue and Enigmas III . Of History IV . Essays and Philosophy V. SECT . I ...
... ( continued ) III . Specimens of Letter - writing 113 114 114 117 . 120 129 . 130 133 II . Criticisms on Everett , Webster , Calhoun , and Clav 136 . 134 II . Of Dialogue and Enigmas III . Of History IV . Essays and Philosophy V. SECT . I ...
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... ( continued ) V. Miscellaneous Essays VI . Miscellaneous Essays ( continued ) PART V. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . CHAP . I. Of different Languages . II . Of the Primitive Languages of Europe . III . Of the English Language IV . Of ...
... ( continued ) V. Miscellaneous Essays VI . Miscellaneous Essays ( continued ) PART V. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . CHAP . I. Of different Languages . II . Of the Primitive Languages of Europe . III . Of the English Language IV . Of ...
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... continued until the art of composing well has been matured , and is acquired as perfectly as the art of speak- ing the language well . OBJECTS AND PLAN OF THIS WORK . Its object is to train the young mind to think , and to be able to ...
... continued until the art of composing well has been matured , and is acquired as perfectly as the art of speak- ing the language well . OBJECTS AND PLAN OF THIS WORK . Its object is to train the young mind to think , and to be able to ...
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... ( continued ) . Supply such words as are necessary to make sense of the following exercises : EXAMPLE . Old , age , joyless , dreary , season , arrive , unimproved , corrupted , mind . Old age will prove a joyless and dreary season , if ...
... ( continued ) . Supply such words as are necessary to make sense of the following exercises : EXAMPLE . Old , age , joyless , dreary , season , arrive , unimproved , corrupted , mind . Old age will prove a joyless and dreary season , if ...
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Page 264 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 236 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool ; The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 169 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Page 226 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 80 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 228 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 218 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Page 149 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 209 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 86 - The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. Return, we beseech thee, O God of Hosts : look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.