Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practical Lessons on the Origin, History, and Peculiarities of the English Language ... |
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... nature has not constituted such , it is sincerely believed that a knowledge of the principles here set forth will have a tendency to produce more cor- rect and better poetry , as it certainly will enable the reader to have a higher ...
... nature has not constituted such , it is sincerely believed that a knowledge of the principles here set forth will have a tendency to produce more cor- rect and better poetry , as it certainly will enable the reader to have a higher ...
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... nature , are , at the present day , much more animated in their tones and more addicted to gesticulation than the ... natural interjections were used more frequently than at present . Grammarians consider them Among these inarticulate ...
... nature , are , at the present day , much more animated in their tones and more addicted to gesticulation than the ... natural interjections were used more frequently than at present . Grammarians consider them Among these inarticulate ...
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... nature , and totally ignorant of the ties of society . He does not , however , seek to explain how language arose , being disheartened at the outset by the difficulty of de- ciding whether language was more necessary for the institu ...
... nature , and totally ignorant of the ties of society . He does not , however , seek to explain how language arose , being disheartened at the outset by the difficulty of de- ciding whether language was more necessary for the institu ...
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... natural features of their respective countries and in the objects with which they were surrounded , must have obscured the common roots , and produced such accessions of new words to each dia- lect as to make them seem entirely distinct ...
... natural features of their respective countries and in the objects with which they were surrounded , must have obscured the common roots , and produced such accessions of new words to each dia- lect as to make them seem entirely distinct ...
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... Nature . In this they finally suc ceeded ; and the original inhabitants , to avoid extermination , were obliged to flee to the mountains of Wales and Cornwall , where they maintained their independence for many centuries , and have ...
... Nature . In this they finally suc ceeded ; and the original inhabitants , to avoid extermination , were obliged to flee to the mountains of Wales and Cornwall , where they maintained their independence for many centuries , and have ...
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Page 195 - Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 234 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked...
Page 270 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 252 - By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured and by strangers mourned...
Page 210 - Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Page 224 - Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how. Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave, and spread Into a liquid plain, then stood unmoved, Pure as the expanse of heaven ; I thither went With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seemed another sky...
Page 259 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
Page 306 - He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And He, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning...
Page 253 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 101 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.