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... language , Rhetoric applies to any subject - matter that can be treated in words , but has no subject - matter peculiar to itself . It does not undertake to furnish a person with something but it does undertake to tell him how best to ...
... language , Rhetoric applies to any subject - matter that can be treated in words , but has no subject - matter peculiar to itself . It does not undertake to furnish a person with something but it does undertake to tell him how best to ...
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... scholar of the last cen- tury said he had known but three of his countrymen who spoke their native language with uniform gram- matical accuracy , and the observation of most persons . 1 PART COMPOSITION IN GENERAL BOOK GRAMMATICAL PURITY.
... scholar of the last cen- tury said he had known but three of his countrymen who spoke their native language with uniform gram- matical accuracy , and the observation of most persons . 1 PART COMPOSITION IN GENERAL BOOK GRAMMATICAL PURITY.
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... language . However good English . interesting in themselves , however success- fully prosecuted , such investigations are of little prac- tical value in a study which has to do , not with words as they have been or might have been or ...
... language . However good English . interesting in themselves , however success- fully prosecuted , such investigations are of little prac- tical value in a study which has to do , not with words as they have been or might have been or ...
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... language as his or her , and one can only smile at a recent writer's hostility to this " unlucky , new - fangled word . " 1 ousness . " There is , " says Landor , “ a fastidiousness in the use of language that indicates an atrophy of ...
... language as his or her , and one can only smile at a recent writer's hostility to this " unlucky , new - fangled word . " 1 ousness . " There is , " says Landor , “ a fastidiousness in the use of language that indicates an atrophy of ...
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... language expressions that give life to our daily speech and vigor to the best writing , indicates " an atrophy of mind " akin to that of which Landor speaks . 1 - Pell - mell , topsy - turvy , helter - skelter , hurly - burly , hocus ...
... language expressions that give life to our daily speech and vigor to the best writing , indicates " an atrophy of mind " akin to that of which Landor speaks . 1 - Pell - mell , topsy - turvy , helter - skelter , hurly - burly , hocus ...
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Page 164 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 162 - Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock ; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 190 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Page 163 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 217 - Venerable men! you have come down to us, from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers, and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country.
Page 152 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 386 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers.
Page 256 - The foam is not cruel, neither does it crawl. The state of mind which attributes to it these characters of a living creature is one in which the reason is unhinged by grief. All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the "pathetic fallacy.
Page 114 - Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire, and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities.