The Principles of RhetoricHarper & Brothers, 1895 - 431 páginas |
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... cause and effect , and is thus distinguished from that which is natural , are all words revived , not invented by the school of Coleridge . " 1 Other words " revived , not invented , " are connotation , 2 spiritual- ism , tennis ...
... cause and effect , and is thus distinguished from that which is natural , are all words revived , not invented by the school of Coleridge . " 1 Other words " revived , not invented , " are connotation , 2 spiritual- ism , tennis ...
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... cause ; thus , Thou shalt endure , and thy years shall not change : ' The righteous shall hold on his way , and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger . ' Of course these ' shalls ' are sometimes wrongly empha- sized ...
... cause ; thus , Thou shalt endure , and thy years shall not change : ' The righteous shall hold on his way , and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger . ' Of course these ' shalls ' are sometimes wrongly empha- sized ...
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... cause for alarm ; it was not a stumble , nor a false step ; and , if it had the fair Amazon had too much self - possession to have been deranged by it . ” 10 1 Mallock : The New Republic , book i . chap . iii . 2 Knights of Labor ...
... cause for alarm ; it was not a stumble , nor a false step ; and , if it had the fair Amazon had too much self - possession to have been deranged by it . ” 10 1 Mallock : The New Republic , book i . chap . iii . 2 Knights of Labor ...
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... causes obscurity . For example : - " Brother and sister , sitting thus side by side , have , of course , their ... caused by an attempt to assert a thing by denying the opposite . For exam- ple : - Negative or positive ? " He was ...
... causes obscurity . For example : - " Brother and sister , sitting thus side by side , have , of course , their ... caused by an attempt to assert a thing by denying the opposite . For exam- ple : - Negative or positive ? " He was ...
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... cause of the stamp upon it , or to refuse an accession to an estate because our grandfather could do without it . A book composed of merely Saxon words ( if such a thing could be ) would only prove the perverseness of the author . It ...
... cause of the stamp upon it , or to refuse an accession to an estate because our grandfather could do without it . A book composed of merely Saxon words ( if such a thing could be ) would only prove the perverseness of the author . It ...
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American newspaper analogy antecedent probability Anthony Trollope argue argument arrangement authors Bagheera Barchester Towers beginning better Burke called chap character Charles Reade clause clearness composition Daniel Webster E. F. Benson ease effect English Essays example exposition expression fact fallacy feelings following passage force George Eliot give hand Herbert Spencer Ibid idea instance J. S. Mill kind language lect less look Lord Macaulay Martin Chuzzlewit matter Matthew Arnold means ment metaphor method Middlemarch Milton mind Miss Marjoribanks narration narrative nature never object observation paragraph persons phrase poetry poets present principle proposition prose purpose question Quincey Quintilian Quoted reader reason Rhetoric rule scene Scott sect sense sentence Shakspere simile sometimes speak Spectator speech story Student's theme style tell tence Thackeray thing thou thought tion truth unity verb whole words writer
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Página 61 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Página 162 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Página 188 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Página 150 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Página 161 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Página 78 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand.
Página 217 - The same heavens are indeed over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your feet ; but all else how changed ! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the...
Página 150 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 36 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Página 192 - Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist, and the harp of the prophet. He had been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe.