A Second Manual of Composition: Designed for Secondary SchoolsMacmillan, 1900 - 579 pages |
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aloud the following American Bearcamp Water beautiful better called cause character clauses clear coherent colloquial color comma composition dependent clauses effect ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER ellipsis emphasis emphatic English EXERCISE exposition expression eyes fact feel feet fish five themes GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS give H. C. POTTER HENRY JAMES HENRY WALLACE horse important kind lake language Latin less light literary usage live look Main Division matter means ment merely mind Montevarchi nature ness never North of Bearcamp objects Oral outline paragraph periodic sentence person phrase pleonasm principle Read aloud reader relative clause seems sense slang sometimes speak statement story structure student taste tell tences things thought tion topics trees trope unity verb vulgar W. H. HUDSON whole words writing written young Youth's Companion
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Page 213 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work, that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 183 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Page 432 - ... the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
Page 120 - If, then, the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient; what way yet remains? No way is open but the third and last^-to comply with the American spirit as necessary; or, if you please, to submit to it as a necessary evil.
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Page 217 - To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion ; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to...
Page 366 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 516 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Page 353 - But whatever language he knows, he knows precisely ; whatever word he pronounces, he pronounces rightly. Above all, he is learned in the peerage of words, knows the words of true descent and ancient blood, at a glance, from words of modern canaille ; remembers all their ancestry, their intermarriages, distant relationships, and the extent to which they were admitted, and offices they held among the national noblesse of words at any time and in any country.
Page 213 - Sir, you may destroy this little institution ; — it is weak ; it is in your hands ! I know it is one of the lesser lights in the literary horizon of our country. You may put it out. But if you do so, you must carry through your work ! You must extinguish, one after another, all those great lights of science which, for more than a century, have thrown their radiance over our land!