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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... thought necessary before requiring the student to write original exercises . Thus prepared , the pupil enters on the subject of prose compo- sition . The process of Invention , which furnishes the thoughts to be clothed in a dress of ...
... thought necessary before requiring the student to write original exercises . Thus prepared , the pupil enters on the subject of prose compo- sition . The process of Invention , which furnishes the thoughts to be clothed in a dress of ...
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... thought . Those who have tried both courses must decide whether this position is not as consonant with fact , as it certainly is with reason . Repeating his thanks for the patronage extended to the little volume which preceded this ...
... thought . Those who have tried both courses must decide whether this position is not as consonant with fact , as it certainly is with reason . Repeating his thanks for the patronage extended to the little volume which preceded this ...
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... thought and long series of facts . Good pantomimists will make the plot of a theatrical piece just as intelligible to an audience as if it were developed by dialogue . §2 . What desire results from man's social disposition ? Is this ...
... thought and long series of facts . Good pantomimists will make the plot of a theatrical piece just as intelligible to an audience as if it were developed by dialogue . §2 . What desire results from man's social disposition ? Is this ...
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... thoughts may be expressed . This means of communication , as well as that which follows , is employed by man alone . IV . Written Language . By this is meant a combination of arbitrary characters , which convey to the mind the ideas ...
... thoughts may be expressed . This means of communication , as well as that which follows , is employed by man alone . IV . Written Language . By this is meant a combination of arbitrary characters , which convey to the mind the ideas ...
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... thoughts . § 6. Written language was devised by man . The exact period of its origin is unknown ; but it is supposed not to have been invented until several centuries after men were in What fact confirms us in the belief that in ...
... thoughts . § 6. Written language was devised by man . The exact period of its origin is unknown ; but it is supposed not to have been invented until several centuries after men were in What fact confirms us in the belief that in ...
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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.