The Principles of RhetoricAmerican Book Company, 1895 - 431 páginas |
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... Ease • • n . NUMBER OF WORDS Section I. Clearness II . Force 66 III . Ease 74 · 81 · 111 132 145 · 146 · 150 175 CHAP . III . ARRANGEMENT Section I. Clearness . PAGE.
... Ease • • n . NUMBER OF WORDS Section I. Clearness II . Force 66 III . Ease 74 · 81 · 111 132 145 · 146 · 150 175 CHAP . III . ARRANGEMENT Section I. Clearness . PAGE.
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... Ease · • 198 66 IV . Unity . · · 208 66 V. Kinds of Sentences • 216 66 VI . Paragraphs . • 230 66 VII . Whole Compositions 239 PART II . KINDS OF COMPOSITION . FOUR KINDS DISCRIMINATED • • I. DESCRIPTION Section I. Scientific ...
... Ease · • 198 66 IV . Unity . · · 208 66 V. Kinds of Sentences • 216 66 VI . Paragraphs . • 230 66 VII . Whole Compositions 239 PART II . KINDS OF COMPOSITION . FOUR KINDS DISCRIMINATED • • I. DESCRIPTION Section I. Scientific ...
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... ease , and in oratory fire tells for more than correctness ; but a writer is expected to take whatever time he needs to make his sentences grammatical . Hence , the grosser faults of com- mon speech are avoided by good authors ; but ...
... ease , and in oratory fire tells for more than correctness ; but a writer is expected to take whatever time he needs to make his sentences grammatical . Hence , the grosser faults of com- mon speech are avoided by good authors ; but ...
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... ease if he would only consent to change his religion and become a Protestant . " 4 " If a change of administration is produced by the first move- ments of the House of Commons , as I think it probably will , 5 and I refuse to take ...
... ease if he would only consent to change his religion and become a Protestant . " 4 " If a change of administration is produced by the first move- ments of the House of Commons , as I think it probably will , 5 and I refuse to take ...
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... ease . But is sometimes so used as to perplex the reader . For example : - " Her white hands lay in his great brown paws , like little patches of snow in some sheltered nook of the hills . But they were warm with life and love , and she ...
... ease . But is sometimes so used as to perplex the reader . For example : - " Her white hands lay in his great brown paws , like little patches of snow in some sheltered nook of the hills . But they were warm with life and love , and she ...
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American newspaper analogy antecedent probability Anthony Trollope argue argument arrangement authors Bagheera Barchester Towers beginning better Bride of Lammermoor Burke called chap character Charles Reade clause clearness composition Daniel Webster Disraeli 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 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 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
Pasajes populares
Página 61 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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 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 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 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 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 171 - I crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a certain use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about: For there I picked up on the heather, And there I put inside my breast A moulted feather, an eagle-feather ! Well, I forget the rest.
Página 219 - Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered ! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your feet ; but all else, how changed...
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.