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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... give a perspicuous , forcible , and elegant expression to thought in a written form . It is designed , also , to cultivate the taste , the judgment , the imagination ; to exhibit not only the rules , but co- pious examples of conformity ...
... give a perspicuous , forcible , and elegant expression to thought in a written form . It is designed , also , to cultivate the taste , the judgment , the imagination ; to exhibit not only the rules , but co- pious examples of conformity ...
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... give , to , good , is , mind . 3. Evils , great , is , by , a , human , ourselves , proportion , of , created . 4. Vanity , if , greatness , our , flatters , our , multiplies , it , dangers . 5. For , preparing , another , in , world ...
... give , to , good , is , mind . 3. Evils , great , is , by , a , human , ourselves , proportion , of , created . 4. Vanity , if , greatness , our , flatters , our , multiplies , it , dangers . 5. For , preparing , another , in , world ...
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... give a word or phrase . Let the words and phrases be written down as they are suggested , and afterward re - written so as to make sense : EXAMPLE . Name a subject . The horse . A noun common to the horse and all other animals of the ...
... give a word or phrase . Let the words and phrases be written down as they are suggested , and afterward re - written so as to make sense : EXAMPLE . Name a subject . The horse . A noun common to the horse and all other animals of the ...
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... give my children to the sword ; you may drive myself forth a houseless , childless beggar , or load me with the fetters of slavery ; but you never can conquer the hatred I feel to your op pression . * Exercises similar to those under ...
... give my children to the sword ; you may drive myself forth a houseless , childless beggar , or load me with the fetters of slavery ; but you never can conquer the hatred I feel to your op pression . * Exercises similar to those under ...
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... give to the sword ; my self you may drive forth a houseless , childless beggar , or load with the fetters of slavery ; but the hatred I feel to your oppression never can you conquer . EXERCISES . 1. All the Jews , who knew me from the ...
... give to the sword ; my self you may drive forth a houseless , childless beggar , or load with the fetters of slavery ; but the hatred I feel to your oppression never can you conquer . EXERCISES . 1. All the Jews , who knew me from the ...
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adjective Adverbs allegory American ancient beauty blank verse called CHAPTER character chiefly clause common schools composition correct criticism eating and drinking effect elegant employed English language excellence EXERCISES express feelings figurative language figures of speech following sentences genius give an example grammatical happy harmony heart heaven Henry Kirke White human ideas improvement kind lady letters literary literature living manner mean ment metaphor metonymy mind Mount Ebal nature never North American Review noun o'er objects occasion original passages passions person perspicuity placed pleasure poem poet poetry principal prose quadrupeds remarks rendered scholars SECTION sense sentiments soul sound speak species speech style sublime synecdoche taste teacher tence thee thing thou thought tion Trochee trope truth variety verb verse virtue wall of China words writing written young