A First Manual of Composition: Designed for Use in the Highest Grammar Grade and the Lower High-school GradesMacmillan, 1899 - 239 oldal |
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adjective adverbs aloud the following ask the meaning begin better chain child comma compo composition compound sentences Conclusion under Exercise Define and spell dependent clauses Duke earthworms Edison Emerson Exercises 31 eyes farrier father following paragraph read following passage following sentences following words FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD give hand hearing the following historical paragraph length of sentences light of Exercise logical look lucky escape ment mind misunderstand modifying never Note Oral pier Place a comma place a period preceding predicates punctuation of compound RALPH WALDO EMERSON Read aloud reasoning reference to handwriting relative clause reproduce Revise past themes Revise your theme rule Secret of Achievement semicolon sound spell the following student synonyms Tarpeia tell tences things thought tion unfamiliar words verb voice fall walking WILLIAM MINTO words of Exercise Written Youth's Companion
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189. oldal - To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
196. oldal - ... nobody; all conform to it; so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room who spoke so clear and emphatic?
45. oldal - Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the...
84. oldal - ... that for ever droop and rise over the green banks and mounds sweeping down in scented undulation, steep to the blue water, studded here and there with new-mown heaps, filling all the air with fainter sweetness — look up towards the higher hills, where the waves of everlasting green roll silently into their long inlets among the shadows of the pines ; and we may perhaps at last know the meaning of those quiet words of the 147th Psalm, ' He maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
90. oldal - What mean you, fellow-citizens, that you thus turn every stone to scrape wealth together, and take so little care of your children, to whom, one day, you must relinquish it all?
118. oldal - Electrical fluid agrees with lightning in "these particulars: 1. Giving light. 2. Colour of the light. "3. Crooked direction. 4. Swift motion. 5. Being conducted by metals. 6. Crack or noise in exploding. 7. Sub"sisting in water or ice. 8. Rending bodies it passes "through. 9. Destroying animals. 10. Melting metals, "11. Firing inflammable substances. 12.
44. oldal - I guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions. If he saw any live fighting Indians, it was more than I did, but I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes; and although I never fainted from loss of blood, I can truly say I was often very hungry.
37. oldal - Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under ! But compare the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength.
15. oldal - I can say this, that among my earliest recollections I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand. I don't think I ever got angry at anything else in my life. But that always disturbs my temper, and has ever since.
201. oldal - I made no haste in my work, but rather made the most of it, my house was framed and ready for the raising. I had already bought the shanty of James Collins, an Irishman who worked on the Fitchburg Railroad, for boards. James Collins' shnnty was considered an uncommonly fine one.