The Principles of RhetoricAmerican Book Company, 1895 - 431 páginas |
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Página 81
... true saying that failure is the only high - road to success . ' " 1 — For a chosen few , conscious effort , such as Franklin and Mr. Stevenson made , is of priceless value ; but for most young writers , the best practicable way to ...
... true saying that failure is the only high - road to success . ' " 1 — For a chosen few , conscious effort , such as Franklin and Mr. Stevenson made , is of priceless value ; but for most young writers , the best practicable way to ...
Página 86
... true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us . Because after all our struggle , whether we will or not , we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances , and not according ...
... true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us . Because after all our struggle , whether we will or not , we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances , and not according ...
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... true , Choice of words as affected by subject and almost all of Saxon origin . So are the names purpose . of many of the things necessary to existence or falling within universal experience . As the simplest feelings may express ...
... true , Choice of words as affected by subject and almost all of Saxon origin . So are the names purpose . of many of the things necessary to existence or falling within universal experience . As the simplest feelings may express ...
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... true , where the vulgar Saxon word is refined , and the refined Latin vulgar , in poetry , as in sweat and perspiration ; but there are vastly more in which the Latin bears the bell . Perhaps there might be a question between the old ...
... true , where the vulgar Saxon word is refined , and the refined Latin vulgar , in poetry , as in sweat and perspiration ; but there are vastly more in which the Latin bears the bell . Perhaps there might be a question between the old ...
Página 114
... true of the lily as compared with Solomon is true of all flowers as compared with all men . Another example is furnished by the following passages : 1 . " In large bodies , the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the ...
... true of the lily as compared with Solomon is true of all flowers as compared with all men . Another example is furnished by the following passages : 1 . " In large bodies , the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the ...
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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.