The Alphabet of Rhetoric: With a Chapter on Elocution; Intended as a Familiar Companion for All that Care to Speak and Write Correctly |
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... perhaps English , being the most composite of all languages , is also the most elastic . For this reason , its effective use is almost as much an art as a science . Hardly any document that ever is written in it can be constructed on ...
... perhaps English , being the most composite of all languages , is also the most elastic . For this reason , its effective use is almost as much an art as a science . Hardly any document that ever is written in it can be constructed on ...
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... perhaps correct to say " He is a gentleman and scholar , " but the praise of his accomplishments is made more distinct and emphatic by repeating the article , " He is a gentleman and a scholar , " which calls attention to the fact that ...
... perhaps correct to say " He is a gentleman and scholar , " but the praise of his accomplishments is made more distinct and emphatic by repeating the article , " He is a gentleman and a scholar , " which calls attention to the fact that ...
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... Perhaps the most inexcusable of all abbreviations is " Jno . " for John . It ruins the appearance of a fine name , and it does not even save a fraction of a second or a particle of ink in writing . From the craze for abbreviation has ...
... Perhaps the most inexcusable of all abbreviations is " Jno . " for John . It ruins the appearance of a fine name , and it does not even save a fraction of a second or a particle of ink in writing . From the craze for abbreviation has ...
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... perhaps ( or probably ) the hardest lesson in the book . " This use of the word is also illogical , for about compre- hends both sides of the point mentioned . A piece of work might lack a little of completion , but it could not be a ...
... perhaps ( or probably ) the hardest lesson in the book . " This use of the word is also illogical , for about compre- hends both sides of the point mentioned . A piece of work might lack a little of completion , but it could not be a ...
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... perhaps it does , in a small way . Some changes in the language have been wrought by it . For in- stance , before the building of railways public coaches made long journeys by stages - that is , traveled a specified portion of the ...
... perhaps it does , in a small way . Some changes in the language have been wrought by it . For in- stance , before the building of railways public coaches made long journeys by stages - that is , traveled a specified portion of the ...
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Page 139 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Page 126 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 147 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 215 - Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
Page 133 - The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 138 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault ; And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Page 190 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Page 218 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime ? Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine...
Page 96 - By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured and by strangers mourned...
Page 324 - They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.