Rhetoric and CompositionH. Holt, 1906 - 259 páginas |
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... Goldsmith ( see Irving s Life of Gold- smith ) . 13. Lamb's picture of his school days in Christ's Hospital ( see the Essays of Elia ) . CHAPTER II THE WHOLE COMPOSITION 9. The structural units of SUGGESTED SUBJECTS FOR THEMES 9.
... Goldsmith ( see Irving s Life of Gold- smith ) . 13. Lamb's picture of his school days in Christ's Hospital ( see the Essays of Elia ) . CHAPTER II THE WHOLE COMPOSITION 9. The structural units of SUGGESTED SUBJECTS FOR THEMES 9.
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... Carlyle's Heroes and Hero - Worship . 20. Irving's picture of country life in England . ( See the Sketch Book . ) 21. Thoreau's life at Walden Pond . ( See Walden . ) CHAPTER V WORDS AND PHRASES 1 50. Style . " 88 THE SENTENCE.
... Carlyle's Heroes and Hero - Worship . 20. Irving's picture of country life in England . ( See the Sketch Book . ) 21. Thoreau's life at Walden Pond . ( See Walden . ) CHAPTER V WORDS AND PHRASES 1 50. Style . " 88 THE SENTENCE.
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... picture of medieval life and ideals a faithful one ? 19. The story of Ruth . ( Use simple biblical language . ) 20. Irving as a delineator of character . Book . ) ( See the Sketch 21. A study of the diction in Lamb's essays . Part II ...
... picture of medieval life and ideals a faithful one ? 19. The story of Ruth . ( Use simple biblical language . ) 20. Irving as a delineator of character . Book . ) ( See the Sketch 21. A study of the diction in Lamb's essays . Part II ...
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... pictures it for us as such . His aim is not to give such an exact account of the animal's habits or relationship to other animals as will enable us to classify it , but merely to give us some idea of its appearance and characteristic ...
... pictures it for us as such . His aim is not to give such an exact account of the animal's habits or relationship to other animals as will enable us to classify it , but merely to give us some idea of its appearance and characteristic ...
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... picture of the thing described , we have description proper , or , as it is sometimes termed , artistic description . - 64. Scientific description . What we have called ordinary or scientific description occupies a sort of midway ...
... picture of the thing described , we have description proper , or , as it is sometimes termed , artistic description . - 64. Scientific description . What we have called ordinary or scientific description occupies a sort of midway ...
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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 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...