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, 1845 - 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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... 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,
... 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 adverb Æneid Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence frequently give Grammar grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology tence thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic 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 372 - Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens : and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant ; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Página 403 - And where we are, our learning likewise is. Then, when ourselves we see in ladies...
Página 237 - 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 105 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 170 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Página 403 - 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 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; 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.
Página 105 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Página 321 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.