The Principles of RhetoricHarper & Bros., 1895 - 431 sider |
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Side 5
... sense they bear in the phrases quoted ; but the phrases are universally understood , and there is no more reason for challenging the words that compose them than there is for challenging a syllable in a word . A similar remark may be ...
... sense they bear in the phrases quoted ; but the phrases are universally understood , and there is no more reason for challenging the words that compose them than there is for challenging a syllable in a word . A similar remark may be ...
Side 8
... sense , make it a part of the language . In both cases , time is the court of last resort ; and the decisions of this court are made known through writers of national reputation . The exact boundaries of present use cannot , however ...
... sense , make it a part of the language . In both cases , time is the court of last resort ; and the decisions of this court are made known through writers of national reputation . The exact boundaries of present use cannot , however ...
Side 9
... sense different from that which it originally bore . Words may be in present use in poetry which are obsolete , or almost obsolete , in prose . Such words are : ere , anon , nigh , save ( except ) , betwixt , scarce and exceeding ...
... sense different from that which it originally bore . Words may be in present use in poetry which are obsolete , or almost obsolete , in prose . Such words are : ere , anon , nigh , save ( except ) , betwixt , scarce and exceeding ...
Side 16
... sense and good taste ; a writer who is still learning his busi- ness will be wise if he decides every doubtful case in favor of his mother tongue . The following are instances of foreign expressions to which English equivalents are ...
... sense and good taste ; a writer who is still learning his busi- ness will be wise if he decides every doubtful case in favor of his mother tongue . The following are instances of foreign expressions to which English equivalents are ...
Side 18
... sense , that one should be chosen which , in the case in hand , is susceptible of but one interpretation . Observance of this rule tends to give to each word a meaning of its own . Acts , in the sense of " things done , " is preferable ...
... sense , that one should be chosen which , in the case in hand , is susceptible of but one interpretation . Observance of this rule tends to give to each word a meaning of its own . Acts , in the sense of " things done , " is preferable ...
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American newspaper analogy antecedent probability Anthony Trollope argue argument arrangement authors Bagheera Barchester Towers beginning better Burke called chap character Charles Reade clearness composition Daniel Webster Disraeli E. F. Benson ease effect English Essays example exposition expression fact fallacy feelings following passage force George Eliot give hand Herbert Spencer History Ibid idea instance J. S. Mill kind language lect less look Lord Macaulay Martin Chuzzlewit matter Matthew Arnold means ment metaphor method Middlemarch Milton mind Miss Marjoribanks narration narrative nature never object observation paragraph persons phrase poetry poets present principle proposition prose purpose question Quincey Quintilian Quoted reader reason Rhetoric rule scene Scott sect sense sentence Shakspere simile sometimes speak Spectator speech story Student's theme style tell tence Thackeray thing thou thought tion truth unity verb whole words writer
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Side 61 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Side 162 - Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock ; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 392 - The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up. But I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 164 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Side 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.
Side 219 - VENERABLE MEN! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed ! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes...