Elements of Rhetoric and English Composition: First High School CourseMacmillan, 1899 - 254 páginas |
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Elements of Rhetoric and English Composition: Second High School Course George Rice Carpenter Visualização integral - 1900 |
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adjective adverb American Anglo-Saxon beginning called clear Coherence College colloquial comma complex sentence compound sentence construction correct course definite dependent clause dictionary Dutch Republic educated effect emphasis England ENGLISH COMPOSITION essay essential example EXERCISE expressions fault feel figures of speech following sentences force French future tenses grammatical structure habit High School idea important Incoherence incorrect interest king King Arthur language Latin literary English loose sentence means ment Middle English mind modified Notice nouns object paragraph periodic sentence person phrases plural Poems possessive predicate principal clauses principles Professor pronoun pupil question reader RHETORIC AND ENGLISH rule semicolon sense Silas Marner simple sentence singular Sometimes confused speech spelling statement student style subordinate clauses taste tences thing thought tion topic sentence trees unity usage verb verb-phrases vocabulary vulgar whole composition writing
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Página 99 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last .feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Página 178 - We heard the sweet bells over the bay? In the caverns where we lay, Through the surf and through the swell, The far-off sound of a silver bell? Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam, Where the salt weed sways in the stream...
Página 183 - On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts, and most of them had enormous breeches, of similar style with that of the guide's.
Página 166 - And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
Página 197 - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Página 206 - Scotland, after ages of enmity, was at length united to England, not merely by legal bonds, but by indissoluble ties of interest and affection; how, in America, the British colonies rapidly became far mightier and wealthier than the realms which Cortes and Pizarro had added to the dominions of Charles the Fifth; how in Asia, British adventurers founded an empire not less splendid and more durable than that of Alexander.
Página 78 - That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Página 184 - I made a little book in which I allotted a page for each of the virtues. I ruled each page with red ink so as to have seven columns, one for each day of the week, marking each column with a letter for the day.
Página 111 - Every one has heard the story which has gone the rounds of New England, of a strong and beautiful bug which came out of the dry leaf of an old table of apple-tree wood...
Página 226 - 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 stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.