Theme-buildingScott, Foresman, 1920 - 562 pages |
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... explanation . The books then wave the subject aloft as a literary matter , and there it floats out of reach . I have tried to make the subject alive by copious illustration ; when it is understood , it appears as a common necessity of ...
... explanation . The books then wave the subject aloft as a literary matter , and there it floats out of reach . I have tried to make the subject alive by copious illustration ; when it is understood , it appears as a common necessity of ...
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... explains how to put thoughts on paper ; but the experience thus gained by the student can be applied , in similar ways and for similar reasons , to the expression of thoughts with his tongue . Oral English is not a different subject ...
... explains how to put thoughts on paper ; but the experience thus gained by the student can be applied , in similar ways and for similar reasons , to the expression of thoughts with his tongue . Oral English is not a different subject ...
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... explaining the style in Dr. Johnson's essays , called The Rambler . The first sentence makes a sur- prising statement of fact ; the second sentence contains three items of explanation of the astonishing fact ; the third tells us that ...
... explaining the style in Dr. Johnson's essays , called The Rambler . The first sentence makes a sur- prising statement of fact ; the second sentence contains three items of explanation of the astonishing fact ; the third tells us that ...
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... explain or to state facts or to persuade ; and , whether we are philosophers or writers of business letters , we shall fail unless we can follow a straight line through what we say . That ability is the first and greatest demand that ...
... explain or to state facts or to persuade ; and , whether we are philosophers or writers of business letters , we shall fail unless we can follow a straight line through what we say . That ability is the first and greatest demand that ...
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... explain a moral lesson or to con- vey information . But all ordinary stories that contain a plot are an interesting account of what people did . Why , then , is the following paragraph not a story ? Two boys , A and B , are balancing on ...
... explain a moral lesson or to con- vey information . But all ordinary stories that contain a plot are an interesting account of what people did . Why , then , is the following paragraph not a story ? Two boys , A and B , are balancing on ...
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Page 7 - I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man...
Page 231 - ... remained. The rocks presented a high impenetrable wall over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding forest. Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog; he was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows...
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Page 231 - Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog; he was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows sporting high in air about a dry tree that overhung a sunny precipice, and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff...
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Page 7 - It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.
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