Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and VerseHarper & Brothers, 1850 - 429 páginas |
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... philosophers have been much perplexed to account for the same appearance . It is not uncommon to find great quantities of shells and relics of marine animals even in the bowels of high mountains very remote from the sea . William . I ...
... philosophers have been much perplexed to account for the same appearance . It is not uncommon to find great quantities of shells and relics of marine animals even in the bowels of high mountains very remote from the sea . William . I ...
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... philosophical science . Nearly all our national proverbs , in which it is truly said , so much of the practical wisdom of a nation resides , and which constitute the manual and vade mecum of " hobnailed " philosophy , are almost wholly ...
... philosophical science . Nearly all our national proverbs , in which it is truly said , so much of the practical wisdom of a nation resides , and which constitute the manual and vade mecum of " hobnailed " philosophy , are almost wholly ...
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... philosophical discoveries , or on any thing with which persons of a particular trade only , or a particular profession , are acquainted , produce not their proper effect . They should be drawn from those illustrious and noted objects ...
... philosophical discoveries , or on any thing with which persons of a particular trade only , or a particular profession , are acquainted , produce not their proper effect . They should be drawn from those illustrious and noted objects ...
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... Philosophical Education , is less mechanical , and is to be pre- ferred , because the mind of the student is less fettered by " leading strings , " and left more to its own resources . The following are his pre- liminary remarks : " To ...
... Philosophical Education , is less mechanical , and is to be pre- ferred , because the mind of the student is less fettered by " leading strings , " and left more to its own resources . The following are his pre- liminary remarks : " To ...
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... discovering and following out the traces which it has left Jardine's " Outlines of a Philosophical Education , " page 322 . in the path over which it has passed . Thus AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 219 Illustration of a Subject,
... discovering and following out the traces which it has left Jardine's " Outlines of a Philosophical Education , " page 322 . in the path over which it has passed . Thus AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 219 Illustration of a Subject,
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accent acute accent admiration adverb Allowable rhymes ancient Antonomasia beauty called Catachresis cents character clause comma composition compound sentence derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently genius give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination influence kind lady language Latin Latin language letter literary literature look manner means mind moral Muslin nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia opinion participles of verbs Philosophical phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rules Saxon sense Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit student style syllable tautology tence thing thou thought tion Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Página 127 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Página 104 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Página 291 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Página 20 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Página 397 - But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Página 235 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 401 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Página 129 - Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that...
Página 170 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore...
Página 120 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the...