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 Literature from the Earliest to the Present Times |
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... effect , the illustrations are so selected as to fortify the af- fections and improve the heart . Nor is this all love of country is incidentally inculcated ; that strongest love , based upon respect for what that country has produced ...
... effect , the illustrations are so selected as to fortify the af- fections and improve the heart . Nor is this all love of country is incidentally inculcated ; that strongest love , based upon respect for what that country has produced ...
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... Effect on it of the Saxon Conquest VI . The Effect on it of the Danish Conquest VII . The Effect on it of the Norman Conquest VIII . Of the Modern History of our Language IX . The same Subject continued . X. Of Periodical Literature XI ...
... Effect on it of the Saxon Conquest VI . The Effect on it of the Danish Conquest VII . The Effect on it of the Norman Conquest VIII . Of the Modern History of our Language IX . The same Subject continued . X. Of Periodical Literature XI ...
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... effects , calculations . 8. Changes , continually , place , men , manners , opinions , customs , private , public . 9. Religious , unjustly , romantic , visionary , unacquainted , world , unfit , live . SECTION IV . DERIVATIVE WORDS ...
... effects , calculations . 8. Changes , continually , place , men , manners , opinions , customs , private , public . 9. Religious , unjustly , romantic , visionary , unacquainted , world , unfit , live . SECTION IV . DERIVATIVE WORDS ...
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... effect of all their powers . 3. At our first setting out in life , when yet unacquainted with the world and its snares , when every pleasure enchants with its smile , and every ob- ject shines with the gloss of novelty , let us beware ...
... effect of all their powers . 3. At our first setting out in life , when yet unacquainted with the world and its snares , when every pleasure enchants with its smile , and every ob- ject shines with the gloss of novelty , let us beware ...
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... effect of an active verb ; as , " Vice renders men miserable . " 6. When a neuter verb comes between it and the noun or pronoun ; as , " It seems strange . " IV . The pronoun of the third person is placed after that of the second ; and ...
... effect of an active verb ; as , " Vice renders men miserable . " 6. When a neuter verb comes between it and the noun or pronoun ; as , " It seems strange . " IV . The pronoun of the third person is placed after that of the second ; and ...
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