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... body of the work and in the Appendix , will be found really practicable and serviceable . A large number of subjects for original composition has been provided ; and for the greater part of these , hints and materials have been added ...
... body of the work and in the Appendix , will be found really practicable and serviceable . A large number of subjects for original composition has been provided ; and for the greater part of these , hints and materials have been added ...
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... body ; from which concep- tion as from a centre , branch out various predications according to the purpose of the writer , each of which may be expressed in several ways . The Sun - shines ; illumines the world ; sheds his light over ...
... body ; from which concep- tion as from a centre , branch out various predications according to the purpose of the writer , each of which may be expressed in several ways . The Sun - shines ; illumines the world ; sheds his light over ...
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... body , so that it occupies more space ? [ expand , expansion ; rarefy , rarefaction ] . Velocities of wind [ the anemometer ? ] in hurricanes from 60 to 100 miles an hour . Uses of wind ? [ dangers of stagnation , infection ...
... body , so that it occupies more space ? [ expand , expansion ; rarefy , rarefaction ] . Velocities of wind [ the anemometer ? ] in hurricanes from 60 to 100 miles an hour . Uses of wind ? [ dangers of stagnation , infection ...
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... Body buried by king's orders - dog brought to king . 6. Review of king's troops . Dog present . 7. Fury of dog when the murderers march past . 8. Seizure of murderers . Points of story : — Confession . Execution . EXERCISE 43 . CUNNING ...
... Body buried by king's orders - dog brought to king . 6. Review of king's troops . Dog present . 7. Fury of dog when the murderers march past . 8. Seizure of murderers . Points of story : — Confession . Execution . EXERCISE 43 . CUNNING ...
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... body - seizes pike from guard - kills Clitus- " Go now to Philip and Parmenio . " EXERCISE 54 . THE TRAVELLER'S DOG . The facts related in the following piece are to be related in simple , unadorned , prose . The purely imaginative ...
... body - seizes pike from guard - kills Clitus- " Go now to Philip and Parmenio . " EXERCISE 54 . THE TRAVELLER'S DOG . The facts related in the following piece are to be related in simple , unadorned , prose . The purely imaginative ...
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adverb ancient appear attended authors become better body brought called carried cause clause clear close common Compare connected correct course death effect England English entire equal especially examples EXERCISE expression fact feeling force French give given GRAMMAR hand HISTORY horse imagination important Indicative instances introduced kind king land language Latin less light live manner mark master means mind nature never Note noun object observed once paragraph passage passed perhaps period person phrase position possible Post 8vo practice present pronoun prose Read reason referred Relative Roman Rowley rule seems seen sense sentence serve Shaw ships short simple sometimes speak story student style Subjunctive things thought tion verb whole writer
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Página 123 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 122 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 121 - And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Página 158 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Página 32 - Far in the bosom of Helvellyn, Remote from public Road or Dwelling, Pathway, or cultivated land ; From trace of human foot or hand. There, sometimes does a leaping Fish Send through the Tarn a lonely cheer...
Página 165 - Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things.
Página 130 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.
Página 34 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Página 168 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.