The Principles of RhetoricAmerican Book Company, 1895 - 431 páginas |
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... thoughts to lie evenly , and every expression would be constrained and crampt . We should scarcely find at metaphor in the purest author that is not false or imper- fect , nor could we imagine one ourselves that would not be stiff and ...
... thoughts to lie evenly , and every expression would be constrained and crampt . We should scarcely find at metaphor in the purest author that is not false or imper- fect , nor could we imagine one ourselves that would not be stiff and ...
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... thought might be carried out in a crowd of phrases , old and new , in which British and American usage differs , but in which neither usage can be said to be in itself better or worse than the other . Each usage is the better in the ...
... thought might be carried out in a crowd of phrases , old and new , in which British and American usage differs , but in which neither usage can be said to be in itself better or worse than the other . Each usage is the better in the ...
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... thought , but as to expression , the manner of communicating thought . The practice of no one writer , however high he may stand in the public estimation , is enough to settle a point ; but the uniform or nearly uni- form practice of ...
... thought , but as to expression , the manner of communicating thought . The practice of no one writer , however high he may stand in the public estimation , is enough to settle a point ; but the uniform or nearly uni- form practice of ...
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... thoughts , or feelings , things within our- selves . - Deathly , in the sense of " resembling death , " as , " She was deathly pale , " is preferable to deadly , since deadly also means " inflicting death . " Egotism , in the sense of ...
... thoughts , or feelings , things within our- selves . - Deathly , in the sense of " resembling death , " as , " She was deathly pale , " is preferable to deadly , since deadly also means " inflicting death . " Egotism , in the sense of ...
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... thought on for ascertaining and fixing our language for- ever , after such alterations in it as shall be thought requi- site ; " and that , to this end , VIOLATIONS OF GOOD Barbarisms Improprieties Solecisms.
... thought on for ascertaining and fixing our language for- ever , after such alterations in it as shall be thought requi- site ; " and that , to this end , VIOLATIONS OF GOOD Barbarisms Improprieties Solecisms.
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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 164 - 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 162 - Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock ; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock.
Página 190 - 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 163 - 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 152 - 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 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 113 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Página 255 - Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again!
Página 152 - 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.