The Principles of RhetoricAmerican Book Company, 1895 - 431 páginas |
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... side of the ocean stick to its own way , if only to keep up those little picturesque differences which are really a gain when the substance is essentially the same . This same line of thought might be carried out in a crowd of phrases ...
... side of the ocean stick to its own way , if only to keep up those little picturesque differences which are really a gain when the substance is essentially the same . This same line of thought might be carried out in a crowd of phrases ...
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Adams Sherman Hill. established and reasonable local usage which will show on which side of the ocean he writes . " 1 Writers who maintain that there is , or is soon to be , an American language radically different from the Eng- lish ...
Adams Sherman Hill. established and reasonable local usage which will show on which side of the ocean he writes . " 1 Writers who maintain that there is , or is soon to be , an American language radically different from the Eng- lish ...
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... side of , " the latter form is sometimes especially in poetry chosen on grounds of euphony . ― 1 Brevity , too , may be sacrificed to euphony . With difficulty is preferable to difficultly ; without rebuke to unrebukedly ; without pre ...
... side of , " the latter form is sometimes especially in poetry chosen on grounds of euphony . ― 1 Brevity , too , may be sacrificed to euphony . With difficulty is preferable to difficultly ; without rebuke to unrebukedly ; without pre ...
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... sides of the Atlantic to keep telegram out of the language were unsuccessful . So was Charles Sumner's attempt to substitute a rare for a well - known word : : - 4 1 A. W. Ward : in Henry Craik's " English Prose , ” vol . ii .; John ...
... sides of the Atlantic to keep telegram out of the language were unsuccessful . So was Charles Sumner's attempt to substitute a rare for a well - known word : : - 4 1 A. W. Ward : in Henry Craik's " English Prose , ” vol . ii .; John ...
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... side of the question . “ I make no apology for employing in my version the names Jupiter , Juno , Venus , and others of Latin origin , for Zeus , Hera , Aphrodite , and other Greek names of the deities of whom Homer speaks . The names ...
... side of the question . “ I make no apology for employing in my version the names Jupiter , Juno , Venus , and others of Latin origin , for Zeus , Hera , Aphrodite , and other Greek names of the deities of whom Homer speaks . The names ...
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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 - 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.