Elements of Rhetoric and English CompositionMacmillan, 1899 - 392 Seiten |
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adjective adverb American Anglo-Saxon beginning called clear Coherence colloquial comma complex sentence compound sentence construction correct definite dependent clause dictionary Dutch Republic educated effect emphasis England ENGLISH COMPOSITION essay essential example EXERCISE expressions fault feel figures of speech following sentences force French future tenses George Eliot give grammatical structure habit idea important Incoherence incorrect instance interest king King Arthur language Latin literary English literature loose sentence meaning Metonymy mind modified Notice nouns object paragraph periodic sentence person phrases plural Poems possessive predicate principal clauses principles pronoun pupil question reader regard RHETORIC AND ENGLISH rule sense Silas Marner simple sentence single singular Sometimes confused speech spelling statement student style subordinate clauses summary sentence teachers tences thing thought tion topic sentence trees unity usage verb verb-phrases vocabulary vulgar whole composition writing
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Seite 195 - They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion,- some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts, and most of them had enormous breeches of similar style with that of the guide's.
Seite 172 - And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you. 8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
Seite 184 - We heard the sweet bells over the bay? In the caverns where we lay, Through the surf and through the swell, The far-off sound of a silver bell? Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam, Where the salt weed sways in the stream...
Seite 162 - Although, as boys, we had been even intimate associates, yet I really knew little of my friend. His reserve had been always excessive and habitual. I was aware, however, that his very ancient family had been noted, time out of mind, for a peculiar sensibility of temperament, displaying itself, through long ages, in many works of exalted art...
Seite 162 - ... as it was, had put forth at no period any enduring branch; in other words, that the entire family lay in the direct line of descent, and had always, with very trifling and very temporary variation, so lain. It was this deficiency, I considered, while running over in thought the perfect keeping of the character of the premises with the accredited character of the people...
Seite 84 - That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Seite 196 - I made a little book in which I allotted a page for each of the virtues. I ruled each page with red ink so as to have seven columns, one for each day of the week, marking each column with a letter for the day.
Seite 238 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Seite 117 - Every one has heard the story which has gone the rounds of New England, of a strong and beautiful bug which came out of the dry leaf of an old table of apple-tree wood...
Seite 217 - I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.