The Principles of RhetoricAmerican Book Company, 1895 - 431 páginas |
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... style , the primary rule and con- dition is , not to attempt to express ourselves in language before we thoroughly ... style for style's sake , but to stimulate and train his powers of expression , to enable him to say - what he has to ...
... style , the primary rule and con- dition is , not to attempt to express ourselves in language before we thoroughly ... style for style's sake , but to stimulate and train his powers of expression , to enable him to say - what he has to ...
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... style . On this ground , had rather and had better are quite as good English as would rather and might better : " I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God , than to dwell in the tents of wickedness . " 8 " I had rather be a ...
... style . On this ground , had rather and had better are quite as good English as would rather and might better : " I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God , than to dwell in the tents of wickedness . " 8 " I had rather be a ...
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... style ought to bend to this consideration . To write what is not understood in its full force for fear of using some word which was unknown to Swift or Dryden would be , I think , as absurd as to build an observatory like that at Oxford ...
... style ought to bend to this consideration . To write what is not understood in its full force for fear of using some word which was unknown to Swift or Dryden would be , I think , as absurd as to build an observatory like that at Oxford ...
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... style by overloading it with imported ornament , some genuine , some pinch- beck ; another caters to vulgar readers who prefer second . rate French to first - rate English . A writer who has mastered his business will follow the laws of ...
... style by overloading it with imported ornament , some genuine , some pinch- beck ; another caters to vulgar readers who prefer second . rate French to first - rate English . A writer who has mastered his business will follow the laws of ...
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... style yourself an artist , or an artiste , as the case may be , and do not speak of applause , how- ever loud and genuine , as a perfect furore . Do not describe a per- formance given at three o'clock in the afternoon as a matinée , and ...
... style yourself an artist , or an artiste , as the case may be , and do not speak of applause , how- ever loud and genuine , as a perfect furore . Do not describe a per- formance given at three o'clock in the afternoon as a matinée , and ...
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Página 36 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Página 61 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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 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 126 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
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 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.
Página 5 - ON the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two, Did the English fight the French, — woe to France ! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter through the blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Ranee, With the English fleet in view.