Theme-buildingScott, Foresman, 1920 - 562 pages |
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... results and what methods are fruitful , which type of exercise wastes time and which must be extended . Each year I have seen more clearly that mere precept accomplishes little , that examples and exercises cause knowledge . From year ...
... results and what methods are fruitful , which type of exercise wastes time and which must be extended . Each year I have seen more clearly that mere precept accomplishes little , that examples and exercises cause knowledge . From year ...
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... result . He was deeply concerned not to have any " jolts " or " hitches " in his pages ; he devised a regular progress in a narrative form . ( The reader has just been told about the advance of Braddock's army through the wilderness to ...
... result . He was deeply concerned not to have any " jolts " or " hitches " in his pages ; he devised a regular progress in a narrative form . ( The reader has just been told about the advance of Braddock's army through the wilderness to ...
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... result of his work was Precaution . Unless the English novel was very poor , Cooper's wasn't much of an improvement , as his was very dull . Another fault with it was that its characters weren't true to life , as the setting was in ...
... result of his work was Precaution . Unless the English novel was very poor , Cooper's wasn't much of an improvement , as his was very dull . Another fault with it was that its characters weren't true to life , as the setting was in ...
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... result - an island . When the polyps reach the surface of the water , they have to stop . It is impossible for them to work above water . As you probably know , the surface of the earth is always contracting or expanding . Maybe this ...
... result - an island . When the polyps reach the surface of the water , they have to stop . It is impossible for them to work above water . As you probably know , the surface of the earth is always contracting or expanding . Maybe this ...
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... result . Every good story that was ever told has been constructed on the same principle . Whether we hear a funny account of a trained frog or read a romance like The Lady of the Lake , we always find a variation of the same method : we ...
... result . Every good story that was ever told has been constructed on the same principle . Whether we hear a funny account of a trained frog or read a romance like The Lady of the Lake , we always find a variation of the same method : we ...
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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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