Essays: Moral, Political and AestheticD. Appleton&Company, 1865 - 386 páginas |
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... means assuming that his views are final , it may be claimed that they mark an immense advance in political philosophy , that they indicate the inevitable direction of future progress , and throw im- portant light upon numerous questions ...
... means assuming that his views are final , it may be claimed that they mark an immense advance in political philosophy , that they indicate the inevitable direction of future progress , and throw im- portant light upon numerous questions ...
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... means con- fined to this structure , but is often used where the order of the words is simply unusual . A more appropriate title would be the direct style , as contrasted with the other , or indirect style : the peculiarity of the one ...
... means con- fined to this structure , but is often used where the order of the words is simply unusual . A more appropriate title would be the direct style , as contrasted with the other , or indirect style : the peculiarity of the one ...
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... speaking - trumpets the gray sea and the loud winds answer - Not in us ; not in Time . " The division of the Simile from the Metaphor is by no FIGURES COMPLETED BY THE READER . 33 means a definite 32 THE PHILOSOPHY OF STYLE .
... speaking - trumpets the gray sea and the loud winds answer - Not in us ; not in Time . " The division of the Simile from the Metaphor is by no FIGURES COMPLETED BY THE READER . 33 means a definite 32 THE PHILOSOPHY OF STYLE .
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Herbert Spencer. FIGURES COMPLETED BY THE READER . 33 means a definite one . Between the one extreme in which the two elements of the comparison are detailed at full length and the analogy pointed out , and the other extreme in which the ...
Herbert Spencer. FIGURES COMPLETED BY THE READER . 33 means a definite one . Between the one extreme in which the two elements of the comparison are detailed at full length and the analogy pointed out , and the other extreme in which the ...
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... mean its rhythmical structure . This , improbable though it seems , will be found to come under the same generalization with the others . Like each of them , it is an idealization of the natural language of strong emotion ...
... mean its rhythmical structure . This , improbable though it seems , will be found to come under the same generalization with the others . Like each of them , it is an idealization of the natural language of strong emotion ...
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Página 21 - The effect of giving priority to the complement of the predicate, as well as the predicate itself, is finely displayed in the opening of " Hyperion " : " Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy
Página 20 - the bark's mast in the gale When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious that for producing the greatest efiect, not only should the main divisions of a sentence observe this
Página 34 - troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high ; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven ; such is noise of the battle." Except in the position of the verb in the first two
Página 9 - is doubtless true. Thus, too, is it with grammar. ' As Dr. Latham, condemning the usual school-drill in Lindley Murray, rightly remarks :—" Gross vulgarity is a fault to be prevented ; but the proper prevention is to be got from habit—not rules." Similarly, there can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon
Página 179 - No person concerned in the management of any duties or taxes created since 1692, except the commissioners of the treasury, nor any of the officers following (viz., commissioners of prizes, transports, sick and wounded, wine licenses, navy, and victualling ; 8* secretaries and receivers of prizes ; comptrollers of the army accounts ; agents of regiments ; governors of plantations, and
Página 20 - theory. Similarly with respect to the conditions under which any fact is predicated. Observe in the following example the effect of putting them last : How immense would be the stimulus to progress, were the honour now given to wealth and title given exclusively to high achievements and intrinsic worth ! And then observe the superior
Página 47 - effect. And while his work presents to the reader that variety needful. to prevent continuous exertion of the same faculties, it will also answer to the description of all highly-organized products, both of man and of nature : it will be, not a series of like parts simply placed in juxtaposition, but one whole made up of unlike parts that are mutually dependent. II