A First Manual of CompositionMacmillan, 1902 - 292 pages |
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... English composition is the art of narrating , describing , explaining , or arguing , by the use of English words . 4. If the study of English composition can help us to tell stories more interestingly , describe things more vividly ...
... English composition is the art of narrating , describing , explaining , or arguing , by the use of English words . 4. If the study of English composition can help us to tell stories more interestingly , describe things more vividly ...
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... a thousand men where one reads Everett's , and will be remem- bered as long as anybody's speeches are remembered who speaks in the English language . " in vain , that this nation , under God , COMPOSITION IN GENERAL 23.
... a thousand men where one reads Everett's , and will be remem- bered as long as anybody's speeches are remembered who speaks in the English language . " in vain , that this nation , under God , COMPOSITION IN GENERAL 23.
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... English soldiers enough for the Indian army , and so the home government was forced to hire native troops . These troops are called Sepoys . The Sepoys are men of various religions . One of their religions teaches its followers that the ...
... English soldiers enough for the Indian army , and so the home government was forced to hire native troops . These troops are called Sepoys . The Sepoys are men of various religions . One of their religions teaches its followers that the ...
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... English residents a fire of bullets day and night . From the hour the siege began , the suffering and the courage of the English were incredible . There was no roof between the gallant defenders and the scorching sun ; the shadow cast ...
... English residents a fire of bullets day and night . From the hour the siege began , the suffering and the courage of the English were incredible . There was no roof between the gallant defenders and the scorching sun ; the shadow cast ...
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... English . For they knew that if these terrible crowds of cruel natives outside could once get into the place , they would kill all the English without mercy . For four months they held out , while disease , hunger , sorrow , and fatigue ...
... English . For they knew that if these terrible crowds of cruel natives outside could once get into the place , they would kill all the English without mercy . For four months they held out , while disease , hunger , sorrow , and fatigue ...
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Page 77 - The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Page 254 - Electrical fluid agrees with lightning in "these particulars: 1. Giving light. 2. Colour of the light. "3. Crooked direction. 4. Swift motion. 5. Being conducted by metals. 6. Crack or noise in exploding. 7. Sub"sisting in water or ice. 8. Rending bodies it passes "through. 9. Destroying animals. 10. Melting metals, "11. Firing inflammable substances. 12.
Page 156 - Yankee Englishman ; such limbs we make in Yankee-land ! ' As a logic-fencer, advocate, or parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world. The tanned complexion ; that amorphous craglike face, the dull black eyes under...
Page 31 - I pushed back the crowds, and, passing from the rear, walked down a living avenue of people, until I came in front of the semicircle of Arabs, in the front of which stood the white man with the grey beard.
Page 247 - The truth is I am more of a farmer than a soldier. I take little or no interest in military affairs, and, although I entered the army thirtyfive years ago and have been in two wars, in Mexico as a young lieutenant, and later, I never went into the army without regret and never retired without pleasure.
Page 156 - As a Logic-fencer, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world. The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face ; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown; the mastiff -mouth, accurately closed: — I have not traced as much of silent Berserkir-rage, that I remember of, in any other man.
Page 233 - It is a condition in which the food, warmth and clothing which are necessary for the mere maintenance of the functions of the body in their normal state cannot be obtained; in which men, women and children are forced to crowd into dens wherein decency is abolished and the most ordinary conditions of healthful existence are impossible of attainment; in which the pleasures within reach are reduced to...
Page 218 - I could swear like an old salt ; could drink a stiff glass of grog as if I had doubled Cape Horn, and could smoke like a locomotive. I was great at cards and fond of gaming in every shape.
Page 267 - Words ending in y preceded by a consonant generally change y to i before a suffix. 3. Monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Page 79 - That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.