Specimens of Prose CompositionCharles Read Nutter, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Chester Noyes Greenough Ginn, 1907 - 478 oldal |
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xix. oldal
... desirable to know what qualities of speech to watch for . I find - accuracy , audacity , and range , and I will say a few words three , - about each ( p . 24 ) . Captain Mahan's Preparation for War furnishes several examples of the ...
... desirable to know what qualities of speech to watch for . I find - accuracy , audacity , and range , and I will say a few words three , - about each ( p . 24 ) . Captain Mahan's Preparation for War furnishes several examples of the ...
5. oldal
... desirable , therefore , that we should here at the start make sure what we mean by " government , ” in order that we may have a clear idea of what we are talking 20 about . Our verb " to govern is an old French word , one of the great ...
... desirable , therefore , that we should here at the start make sure what we mean by " government , ” in order that we may have a clear idea of what we are talking 20 about . Our verb " to govern is an old French word , one of the great ...
24. oldal
... desirable to know what 20 qualities of speech to watch for . I find three , accuracy , audacity , and range , and I will say a few words about each . - Obviously , good English is exact English . Our words should fit our thoughts like a ...
... desirable to know what 20 qualities of speech to watch for . I find three , accuracy , audacity , and range , and I will say a few words about each . - Obviously , good English is exact English . Our words should fit our thoughts like a ...
117. oldal
... desirable to group together the general causes which have given force 5 to the demand for such management in some directions and have limited its practical usefulness in others . In the beginning of history , the government is the power ...
... desirable to group together the general causes which have given force 5 to the demand for such management in some directions and have limited its practical usefulness in others . In the beginning of history , the government is the power ...
152. oldal
... desirable element of the population , either socially or politically , yet claimed that it was a highly providential arrangement , since the Irish , who for- merly did all the work of the country in the way of ditch- ing and trenching ...
... desirable element of the population , either socially or politically , yet claimed that it was a highly providential arrangement , since the Irish , who for- merly did all the work of the country in the way of ditch- ing and trenching ...
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389. oldal - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
312. oldal - During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
312. oldal - I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain, upon the bleak walls, upon the vacant eye-like windows, upon a few rank sedges, and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees, with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium, the bitter lapse into every-day life, the hideous dropping off of the veil.
23. oldal - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
313. oldal - ... among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate, its capacity for sorrowful impression ; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling...
312. oldal - DURING THE WHOLE of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
313. oldal - It was a mystery all insoluble ; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered.
278. oldal - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
14. oldal - He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd ; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome.
279. oldal - There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs.