Composition - Rhetoric - Literature: A Four Years' Course for Secondary SchoolsB.H. Sanborn & Company, 1917 - 622 ページ |
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... truth . They are never able to speak precisely in terms that other people will understand , for they have become accustomed to a flashy , humorous , rather exaggerated mode of expression . The person who uses slang all the time is ...
... truth . They are never able to speak precisely in terms that other people will understand , for they have become accustomed to a flashy , humorous , rather exaggerated mode of expression . The person who uses slang all the time is ...
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... truth . Honesty is not only the best policy , it is the root of all real success in business . EXERCISES The study of business letters is now carried on by means of models obtained from actual business houses . While it is most ...
... truth . Honesty is not only the best policy , it is the root of all real success in business . EXERCISES The study of business letters is now carried on by means of models obtained from actual business houses . While it is most ...
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... truth , her money affairs had gone wrong , and just now she did not exactly know what to do . She felt more solitary than she had for a long time before . Her father , the last of the family except herself , had been dead for many years ...
... truth , her money affairs had gone wrong , and just now she did not exactly know what to do . She felt more solitary than she had for a long time before . Her father , the last of the family except herself , had been dead for many years ...
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... truth- fulness to a story . It makes a story far more interesting , more vivid , more dramatic , to have the chief characters speak . In the following extract how many speakers are there ? What do you learn about the character of each ...
... truth- fulness to a story . It makes a story far more interesting , more vivid , more dramatic , to have the chief characters speak . In the following extract how many speakers are there ? What do you learn about the character of each ...
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... truth a forest of hundred - foot pines . Purun Bhagat saw an eagle swoop across the gigantic hollow , but the great bird dwindled to a dot ere it was half - way over . A few bands of scattered clouds strung up and down the valley ...
... truth a forest of hundred - foot pines . Purun Bhagat saw an eagle swoop across the gigantic hollow , but the great bird dwindled to a dot ere it was half - way over . A few bands of scattered clouds strung up and down the valley ...
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44 ページ - Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death...
383 ページ - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work, that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
79 ページ - Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
470 ページ - DURING THE WHOLE OF a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
159 ページ - And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
227 ページ - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
357 ページ - I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
248 ページ - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
194 ページ - Observe me, Sir Anthony — I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I dont think so much learning becomes a young woman ; for instance — I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning...
268 ページ - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.