The Art of Writing & Speaking the English Language, Volume 1old Greek Press., 1903 |
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... meanings and values of words , the structure of sentences , of paragraphs , and of entire composi- tions as we read standard literature - just as we have been trying to form the habit of observing the spelling of words , and the logical ...
... meanings and values of words , the structure of sentences , of paragraphs , and of entire composi- tions as we read standard literature - just as we have been trying to form the habit of observing the spelling of words , and the logical ...
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... meanings and uses of words as we read . Another thing we ought to note in our study of words is the suggestion which many words carry with them in addition to their obvious meaning . For instance , consider what a world of ideas the ...
... meanings and uses of words as we read . Another thing we ought to note in our study of words is the suggestion which many words carry with them in addition to their obvious meaning . For instance , consider what a world of ideas the ...
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... meaning than to be strictly gram- matical . We must reduce grammar to an in- stinct that will guard us against being contra- dictory or crude in our construction of sentences , and then we shall make that instinct harmonize with all the ...
... meaning than to be strictly gram- matical . We must reduce grammar to an in- stinct that will guard us against being contra- dictory or crude in our construction of sentences , and then we shall make that instinct harmonize with all the ...
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... meanings through metaphors which have now so faded that we no longer recognize them . Sometimes we get into trouble by introducing two comparisons in the same sentence or para- graph , one of which contradicts the other . Thus should we ...
... meanings through metaphors which have now so faded that we no longer recognize them . Sometimes we get into trouble by introducing two comparisons in the same sentence or para- graph , one of which contradicts the other . Thus should we ...
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... meaning flows like a stream of water . The reader should never be compelled to stop and look back to see how the various ideas " hang together . " This is the rhe- torical side of the logical relationship which gram- mar requires . Not ...
... meaning flows like a stream of water . The reader should never be compelled to stop and look back to see how the various ideas " hang together . " This is the rhe- torical side of the logical relationship which gram- mar requires . Not ...
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Page 24 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 105 - If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting Time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough...
Page 26 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 64 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion, the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Page 63 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Page 13 - I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore, I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Page 64 - People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh, who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle.
Page 29 - I saw her bright reflection In the waters under me, Like a golden goblet falling And sinking into the sea. And far in the hazy distance Of that lovely night in June, The blaze of the flaming furnace Gleamed redder than the moon. Among...
Page 65 - These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose, which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other.
Page 68 - Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven: And now prepare thee for another sight." He look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue; by some were herds Of cattle grazing; others, whence the sound Of instruments, that made melodious chime, Was heard, of harp and organ, and who moved Their stops and chords was seen; his volant touch, Instinct through all proportions, low and high, Fled and pursued transverse the resonant...