Composition-rhetoric: Designed for Use in Secondary SchoolsAllyn and Bacon, 1897 - 373 páginas |
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... - Contrasts 103 Lesson 18. How Paragraphs Grow - Cause and Effect Lesson 19. How Paragraphs Grow - Proofs 110 117 Lesson 20 . - How Paragraphs Grow Combination of Two or More Methods 123 · CHAPTER IV . How TO SAY IT . Lesson 21. ix.
... - Contrasts 103 Lesson 18. How Paragraphs Grow - Cause and Effect Lesson 19. How Paragraphs Grow - Proofs 110 117 Lesson 20 . - How Paragraphs Grow Combination of Two or More Methods 123 · CHAPTER IV . How TO SAY IT . Lesson 21. ix.
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... cause of the American Revolution . 3. How to tell an oak leaf from a maple leaf . 4. Direct a stranger at the railway station to the high- school building , describing the building so that he would know it when he reached it . 5. One ...
... cause of the American Revolution . 3. How to tell an oak leaf from a maple leaf . 4. Direct a stranger at the railway station to the high- school building , describing the building so that he would know it when he reached it . 5. One ...
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... caused him to blanch , and gnaw his lip . Four ideas will be found in this selection : ( 1 ) reasons for Hamlet's sadness ; ( 2 ) the effect upon him of the hasty marriage of the Queen ; ( 3 ) his varying moods ; ( 4 ) his harshness ...
... caused him to blanch , and gnaw his lip . Four ideas will be found in this selection : ( 1 ) reasons for Hamlet's sadness ; ( 2 ) the effect upon him of the hasty marriage of the Queen ; ( 3 ) his varying moods ; ( 4 ) his harshness ...
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... cause - practical unanimity of the colonists - common grievances resulting zeal —¶ English support of the war against the colonies not unanimous — parlia- mentary opposition to the war - classes of the English people favorable to the ...
... cause - practical unanimity of the colonists - common grievances resulting zeal —¶ English support of the war against the colonies not unanimous — parlia- mentary opposition to the war - classes of the English people favorable to the ...
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... cause the probable explanation . - - Washington and Lincoln compared as Statesmen . ¶ The two greatest Americans — each appeared at a great crisis ; Washington at the birth of the nation , Lincoln at its time of greatest need - each was ...
... cause the probable explanation . - - Washington and Lincoln compared as Statesmen . ¶ The two greatest Americans — each appeared at a great crisis ; Washington at the birth of the nation , Lincoln at its time of greatest need - each was ...
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Página 305 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Página 233 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Página 140 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Página 218 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Página 28 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Página 183 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Página 107 - But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; which he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Página 218 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union...
Página 106 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Página 174 - FOLLY; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says in his Almanack of 1733.