Specimens of ExpositionHammond Lamont Henry Holt, 1894 - 180 páginas |
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Página x
... material , and the illustration of general state- ments by specific examples , there are no cut - and - dried rules . The most a man can do is to get a clear un- derstanding of the nature of the difficulties , study the possible methods ...
... material , and the illustration of general state- ments by specific examples , there are no cut - and - dried rules . The most a man can do is to get a clear un- derstanding of the nature of the difficulties , study the possible methods ...
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... used at all in the exposition itself ; the fact remains that the student who writes one and then bears it in mind , will be much more likely to stick to the point . III . DIVISION OF MATERIAL . SINCE the mind grasps xii INTRODUCTION .
... used at all in the exposition itself ; the fact remains that the student who writes one and then bears it in mind , will be much more likely to stick to the point . III . DIVISION OF MATERIAL . SINCE the mind grasps xii INTRODUCTION .
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Hammond Lamont. III . DIVISION OF MATERIAL . SINCE the mind grasps a subject more surely , if but one phase is presented at a time , the material for an exposition should be divided into groups , each treating of but one phase . This ...
Hammond Lamont. III . DIVISION OF MATERIAL . SINCE the mind grasps a subject more surely , if but one phase is presented at a time , the material for an exposition should be divided into groups , each treating of but one phase . This ...
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... material , the student should understand drawing plans . To this end a study of the pages immediately following this introduction is profitable . Here Arnold's essay on Wordsworth is outlined , at first briefly , and then more fully ...
... material , the student should understand drawing plans . To this end a study of the pages immediately following this introduction is profitable . Here Arnold's essay on Wordsworth is outlined , at first briefly , and then more fully ...
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... material , none is better than that suggested by Professor Barrett Wendell in his " English Compo- sition , ' -to put each main heading on a separate sheet of paper or card . This done , the subordinate head- ings can be jotted down on ...
... material , none is better than that suggested by Professor Barrett Wendell in his " English Compo- sition , ' -to put each main heading on a separate sheet of paper or card . This done , the subordinate head- ings can be jotted down on ...
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Adam Smith agriculture ancient animal application of ideas applied authority body boiler Bryce called carbonic acid character Charles circle common Congress Constitution court cylinder diameters division of labor doctrine England English poets equally eternal example exposition fact figure finite freedom gift give glory Goethe Græco-Italian Greek hand Hellenes Indo-Germanic interpretation Italian Jennie kind Latin Latium less liberty lines living Lord Macaulay matter MATTHEW ARNOLD means ment mind Molière moral ideas never noble and profound original peace Penryn perhaps pieces pins piston piston-rod plant poems poetic poetry of revolt poets principle profound application protoplasm question recognized religion revolt against moral Roman Samnites Sanscrit seemed Shakespeare Shakespeare and Milton Spinoza spirit statute steam steam-engine style substance superior supreme thought tion truth unique and unmatchable unity valve Victor Hugo Voltaire whole words Wordsworth Wordsworth's poetry Wordsworthian writing
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Página 165 - Nor love thy life, nor hate; but, what thou liv'st, Live well; how long or short, permit to heaven.
Página xx - The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Página 97 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Página 99 - Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Página 93 - ... whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth ; and this from a great variety of powerful causes...
Página 133 - ... with principalities and powers, with the rulers of the darkness of this world, with wicked spirits in high places.
Página 103 - One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head: to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on, is a peculiar business; to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct...
Página 100 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources; of descent; of form of government; of religion in the northern provinces; of manners in the southern; of education; of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government; from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth; a spirit, that unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not reconcilable...
Página 98 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's " Commentaries
Página 107 - This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labor, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another...