The Principles of RhetoricAmerican Book Company, 1895 - 431 páginas |
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... seem plainer ? Yet rather , as you know , meant originally earlier , being the comparative of rathe : the ' rathe primrose ' of the poet recalls it . We cannot say , You are sooner late ; but who is so troublesome and silly as to ...
... seem plainer ? Yet rather , as you know , meant originally earlier , being the comparative of rathe : the ' rathe primrose ' of the poet recalls it . We cannot say , You are sooner late ; but who is so troublesome and silly as to ...
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... seems to be a mere throwing - away of power . Such a word as ' talented ' it is proper to avoid first , because it is not wanted ; secondly , because you never hear it from those who speak very good English . But the word ' shirk ' as ...
... seems to be a mere throwing - away of power . Such a word as ' talented ' it is proper to avoid first , because it is not wanted ; secondly , because you never hear it from those who speak very good English . But the word ' shirk ' as ...
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... seems as if he thought the English language too meagre , or too common- place a dress , in which to clothe his ... seem frivolous , he suddenly abandons the description of the dances , vis - à - vis and dos - à - dos , to tell us that ...
... seems as if he thought the English language too meagre , or too common- place a dress , in which to clothe his ... seem frivolous , he suddenly abandons the description of the dances , vis - à - vis and dos - à - dos , to tell us that ...
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... seems to be gaining ground . The reasons for this change are suc- cinctly stated by Matthew Arnold : - " The Latin names of the Greek deities raise in most cases the idea of quite distinct personages from the personages whose idea is ...
... seems to be gaining ground . The reasons for this change are suc- cinctly stated by Matthew Arnold : - " The Latin names of the Greek deities raise in most cases the idea of quite distinct personages from the personages whose idea is ...
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... seems , but may not be , real ; evidently , of that which both seems and is real . Condign is properly used of punishment which is commensurate with the offence , but which is not necessarily severe . Conscience , the moral sense , is ...
... seems , but may not be , real ; evidently , of that which both seems and is real . Condign is properly used of punishment which is commensurate with the offence , but which is not necessarily severe . Conscience , the moral sense , is ...
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Página 61 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Página 164 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Página 162 - Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock ; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock.
Página 190 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Página 163 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Página 152 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Página 78 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand.
Página 113 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Página 255 - Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again!
Página 152 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.