Composition-rhetoric: Designed for Use in Secondary SchoolsAllyn and Bacon, 1897 - 373 páginas |
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... sometimes ruffled by a gentle breeze . 4. It was , in- deed , delightful in the country . 5. In the bright sunshine stood an old mansion surrounded by a moat and wall , strong and proud almost as in the feudal times . 6. From the wall ...
... sometimes ruffled by a gentle breeze . 4. It was , in- deed , delightful in the country . 5. In the bright sunshine stood an old mansion surrounded by a moat and wall , strong and proud almost as in the feudal times . 6. From the wall ...
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... sometimes with and sometimes without the prefix " Colonel . " He was an elderly man , quiet and cool in his air and manner , and with a countenance placid but heartless in its expression . There was a certain quick motion of his eye ...
... sometimes with and sometimes without the prefix " Colonel . " He was an elderly man , quiet and cool in his air and manner , and with a countenance placid but heartless in its expression . There was a certain quick motion of his eye ...
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... sometimes some letters . The company which was collected on this occasion were not interested so much in the con- tents of the mail , as in a new team of horses , and a large coach , which was that day for the first time to be put on ...
... sometimes some letters . The company which was collected on this occasion were not interested so much in the con- tents of the mail , as in a new team of horses , and a large coach , which was that day for the first time to be put on ...
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... member that when I saw the sea , it used sometimes to be very fussy and fidgety . And what a rattle the waves made with the stones , when they were rough ! Have you been bathing yet in the sea , and 28 Composition - Rhetoric .
... member that when I saw the sea , it used sometimes to be very fussy and fidgety . And what a rattle the waves made with the stones , when they were rough ! Have you been bathing yet in the sea , and 28 Composition - Rhetoric .
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... Sometimes indentions are made merely for the purpose of attracting the reader's attention to something important . This device should be used with great caution . Beginners will do well to avoid it altogether . One idiotic habit of the ...
... Sometimes indentions are made merely for the purpose of attracting the reader's attention to something important . This device should be used with great caution . Beginners will do well to avoid it altogether . One idiotic habit of the ...
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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.