A College Manual of RhetoricLongmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 451 pages |
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... typical of the danger of the unperiodic sentence , the danger of mere aggregation . But in the following unperiodic sentence the principle of emphasis is just as evidently observed as in the period : In such a people the haughtiness of ...
... typical of the danger of the unperiodic sentence , the danger of mere aggregation . But in the following unperiodic sentence the principle of emphasis is just as evidently observed as in the period : In such a people the haughtiness of ...
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... typical activities , the expression . of individuality , he will find no better practice . Thus not only the reader , but far more the writer , gains by the abandoning of the order of chronology . The same reasons make unprofitable ...
... typical activities , the expression . of individuality , he will find no better practice . Thus not only the reader , but far more the writer , gains by the abandoning of the order of chronology . The same reasons make unprofitable ...
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... typically in their painting of waves . ( 1 ) etc. , etc. D. and finally it belies the human form . 1. Japanese figure - painting is intent upon perpetual slight deformity . ( a ) This is not merely a misconception arising from our lack ...
... typically in their painting of waves . ( 1 ) etc. , etc. D. and finally it belies the human form . 1. Japanese figure - painting is intent upon perpetual slight deformity . ( a ) This is not merely a misconception arising from our lack ...
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... typically narrative and descriptive appear more naturally in fiction , and the description in a novel is typically differ- ent from the description in an essay ; but in general the kinds of composition do not correspond exactly to the ...
... typically narrative and descriptive appear more naturally in fiction , and the description in a novel is typically differ- ent from the description in an essay ; but in general the kinds of composition do not correspond exactly to the ...
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... typical use of this system of analysis is to test or exhibit the purely logical relations of part to part in a finished written argument . Incidentally it is also very useful in de- tail , to test a doubtful bearing , or sum up the ...
... typical use of this system of analysis is to test or exhibit the purely logical relations of part to part in a finished written argument . Incidentally it is also very useful in de- tail , to test a doubtful bearing , or sum up the ...
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Page 410 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations, other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 408 - It is not intended to say that these words comprehend that commerce which is completely internal, which is carried on between man and man in a state, or between different parts of the same state, and whicH does not extend to or affect other states. Such a power would be inconvenient, and is certainly unnecessary. Comprehensive as the word "among" is, it may very properly be restricted to that commerce which concerns more states than one.
Page 7 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things...
Page 224 - God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
Page 8 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 185 - And now, all in my own countree, I stood on the firm land! The Hermit stepped forth from the boat, And scarcely he could stand. "O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!" The Hermit crossed his brow. "Say quick...
Page 13 - England, Sir, is a nation which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Page 230 - But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements...
Page 389 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not ' seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 22 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossne.ss.