The English master; or, Student's guide to reasoning and composition1829 - 80 páginas |
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... greater portion of time is now appropriated to this study than was once bestowed on it , but there is still much room left for improvement ; and I believe it could be shewn , that what is wanting might be introduced , without ...
... greater portion of time is now appropriated to this study than was once bestowed on it , but there is still much room left for improvement ; and I believe it could be shewn , that what is wanting might be introduced , without ...
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... greater about their remem- bering the facts or events recorded , than about their forming a just estimate of their consequence . Should a young person , in reading an account of any statesman , philosopher , or hero , be required merely ...
... greater about their remem- bering the facts or events recorded , than about their forming a just estimate of their consequence . Should a young person , in reading an account of any statesman , philosopher , or hero , be required merely ...
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... greater proportion of the higher , and middle ranks of society , it is wholly neglected . There are , indeed , few even of the most simple things that are learned , in which a judicious in- structor may not teach his pupil to reason ...
... greater proportion of the higher , and middle ranks of society , it is wholly neglected . There are , indeed , few even of the most simple things that are learned , in which a judicious in- structor may not teach his pupil to reason ...
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... greater influence on their happi- ness , than the possession and exercise of right prin- ciples and good dispositions . Accomplishments , which have the effect of making us easy in our manners , are certainly worthy of regard ; but ...
... greater influence on their happi- ness , than the possession and exercise of right prin- ciples and good dispositions . Accomplishments , which have the effect of making us easy in our manners , are certainly worthy of regard ; but ...
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... greater degree of deference ; and they occasionally attain considerable influence in society ; but it is not till men have experienced the sweets of social life , and have made much progress in arts and sciences , that they may be said ...
... greater degree of deference ; and they occasionally attain considerable influence in society ; but it is not till men have experienced the sweets of social life , and have made much progress in arts and sciences , that they may be said ...
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acquainted action adjectives admitted adverb affirmed amphibrach Anglo-Saxon appears applied attention beauty cæsura called cause chiefly circumstances composition consciousness consequence considered degree denotes derived discover distinguished effect elegance employed English English language epic poetry examples exercise existence expressed external objects faculty feeling figure genius Gothic Greek guage hence human iambus ideas imagination imperative mood important inductive reasoning instances Julius Cæsar justly kind knowledge known language latter manner means memory mind mode nations nature nouns o'er observations originally participle passions past participle peculiar perceive perception person philosophical phrase poet poetry possess prefixed present principal charm principles produce pronoun qualities racter reasoning regard Romanshe Saxon scarcely sensation sense sentence sentiment shew signifies sometimes sound speak species speech style substance syllables syllogism taste term termination thee thing thou thought tion trochee truth various verb verse words writing
Pasajes populares
Página 410 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 358 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...
Página 204 - How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet ! now dying all away, Now pealing loud again and louder still, Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on.
Página 358 - My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a 1 Judges ix.
Página 414 - The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest, ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...
Página 353 - Swift fly the years, and rise the expected morn ! Oh, spring to light, auspicious Babe ! be born. See nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring...
Página 343 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Página 279 - He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide -,' A hair 'twixt south and south-west side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute.
Página 397 - Oh ! Sovereign of the willing soul, Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs, Enchanting shell ! the sullen Cares And frantic Passions hear thy soft control...
Página 346 - Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane.