Rhetoric and CompositionH. Holt, 1906 - 259 páginas |
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Edward Fulton. To . My Friend and Colleague Thomas Arkle Clark PREFACE All that the author feels called upon to say.
Edward Fulton. To . My Friend and Colleague Thomas Arkle Clark PREFACE All that the author feels called upon to say.
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Edward Fulton. PREFACE All that the author feels called upon to say in antici- pation of the charge that he has added one more to the already overcrowded list of text - books on rhetoric is that it was intended primarily for use in his ...
Edward Fulton. PREFACE All that the author feels called upon to say in antici- pation of the charge that he has added one more to the already overcrowded list of text - books on rhetoric is that it was intended primarily for use in his ...
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... called the isolated paragraph , though it should , in strictness , be regarded not as a paragraph , but as a whole composition . Practically , the paragraph is the unit of discourse ; for , although the sentence is the ultimate unit of ...
... called the isolated paragraph , though it should , in strictness , be regarded not as a paragraph , but as a whole composition . Practically , the paragraph is the unit of discourse ; for , although the sentence is the ultimate unit of ...
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... called rock , with which we are all familiar as " chalk . " Thus the chalk is no unimportant element in the masonry of the earth's crust , and it impresses a peculiar stamp , vary- ing with the conditions to which it is exposed , on the ...
... called rock , with which we are all familiar as " chalk . " Thus the chalk is no unimportant element in the masonry of the earth's crust , and it impresses a peculiar stamp , vary- ing with the conditions to which it is exposed , on the ...
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... called conventional paragraphs . The separate speeches of each charac- ter are set off in paragraphs by themselves , and the reader is thus enabled to differentiate the various . characters presented . The conventional paragraph may ...
... called conventional paragraphs . The separate speeches of each charac- ter are set off in paragraphs by themselves , and the reader is thus enabled to differentiate the various . characters presented . The conventional paragraph may ...
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A. R. Wallace animals appearance argument Arlo Bates assertions beautiful beginning called CHAPTER characters classification clauses clear common composition conclusion contract coördinate course deal deductive defined discourse distinct division effect essential example exposition expressed fact fact of murder feet following passage genus give hand Hence Hester Prynne hypothesis idea illustration imagination inductive Inductive reasoning infer kind Lafcadio Hearn less logical look method Middlemarch mind Minor premise misused Mother Shipton narration narrative nature ness never observed Ordinarily Oregon Trail paragraph particular periodic sentence persuasion phrases point of view premises principles proposition purpose R. L. Stevenson reader reasoning regarded relation Rhetoric seldom sense sentence species Stevenson story structure style SUBJECTS FOR THEMES SUGGESTED SUBJECTS Sullivan's Island syllogisms term testimonial evidence things thought tion tive topic truth unity variety whole wishes words writer
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Página 181 - He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him; and he concurs with their movements rather than takes the initiative himself.
Página 236 - No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness...
Página 46 - The orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired "on which side he voted?" Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm, and, rising on tiptoe, inquired in his ear, "Whether he was Federal or Democrat?
Página 46 - They crowded round him, eyeing him from head to foot with great curiosity. The orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired on which side he voted.
Página 39 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire.
Página 140 - Be that as it might, the scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy.
Página 170 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir...
Página 144 - Cape Cod is the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts: the shoulder is at Buzzard's Bay; the elbow, or crazy-bone, at Cape Mallebarre; the wrist at Truro; and the sandy fist at Provincetown, — behind which the State stands on her guard, with her back to the Green Mountains, and her feet planted on the floor of the ocean, like an athlete protecting her Bay...
Página 39 - He shows us the court, the camp, and the senate. But he shows us also the nation. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the human mind.
Página 217 - But that the legislature can repeal statutes creating private corporations, or confirming to them property already acquired under the faith of previous laws, and by such repeal can vest the property of such corporations exclusively in the State, or dispose of the same to such purposes as they may please, without the consent or default of the corporators...