A manual of English composition |
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... may be safely handed over to the manipulation of the student . It will be noticed that the names of the authors from whom the illustrations of inaccurate English are taken , are in most instances attached . The writer wishes it.
... may be safely handed over to the manipulation of the student . It will be noticed that the names of the authors from whom the illustrations of inaccurate English are taken , are in most instances attached . The writer wishes it.
1. oldal
... M. Jourdain : " Tout ce qui n'est point prose est vers , et tout ce qui n'est point vers est prose . " The student must however beware of confounding Verse with Poetry . B " Or Thus in Prose , —there may be the INTRODUCTION.
... M. Jourdain : " Tout ce qui n'est point prose est vers , et tout ce qui n'est point vers est prose . " The student must however beware of confounding Verse with Poetry . B " Or Thus in Prose , —there may be the INTRODUCTION.
2. oldal
... student to write clearly and correctly - without vulgarity and with- out affectation . The higher charms and graces of style which characterise our standard authors , are in great measure the natural expression of superior genius , and ...
... student to write clearly and correctly - without vulgarity and with- out affectation . The higher charms and graces of style which characterise our standard authors , are in great measure the natural expression of superior genius , and ...
3. oldal
... student should make a point of using this , unless there is some special reason for selecting another . Probably no rule of good writing is more frequently violated than this . The young writer , afraid of seeming bald and dull , has ...
... student should make a point of using this , unless there is some special reason for selecting another . Probably no rule of good writing is more frequently violated than this . The young writer , afraid of seeming bald and dull , has ...
5. oldal
... student should express each in as many ways as he can , being careful to use only simple and natural language . EXERCISE 2 . ( To be worked in same manner as preceding . ) Inventions , Dis- Where ? When ? By whom ? & c . coveries , & c ...
... student should express each in as many ways as he can , being careful to use only simple and natural language . EXERCISE 2 . ( To be worked in same manner as preceding . ) Inventions , Dis- Where ? When ? By whom ? & c . coveries , & c ...
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A Manual of English Composition: With Copious Illustrations and Practical ... Theophilus D Hall Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
A Manual of English Composition: With Copious Illustrations and Practical ... Theophilus D Hall Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2016 |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
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Népszerű szakaszok
123. oldal - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
122. oldal - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
121. oldal - And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
158. oldal - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
32. oldal - Far in the bosom of Helvellyn, Remote from public Road or Dwelling, Pathway, or cultivated land ; From trace of human foot or hand. There, sometimes does a leaping Fish Send through the Tarn a lonely cheer...
165. oldal - Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things.
130. oldal - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.
34. oldal - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
168. oldal - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.