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... Avoid these , and you may 9. All men pursue they knew how . 10. Many men mistake the virtue ; and are not so much ness . and and would be if for the of as the of good- 11. It is required of all men that they live in this world . 12. The ...
... Avoid these , and you may 9. All men pursue they knew how . 10. Many men mistake the virtue ; and are not so much ness . and and would be if for the of as the of good- 11. It is required of all men that they live in this world . 12. The ...
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... avoid the harshness or impropriety of plain expressions . As he per- ished on the scaffold , for , he was hanged . Euphemisms are frequently made by a simple change of words without increasing their number . As he misrepre- sented , for ...
... avoid the harshness or impropriety of plain expressions . As he per- ished on the scaffold , for , he was hanged . Euphemisms are frequently made by a simple change of words without increasing their number . As he misrepre- sented , for ...
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... , Argumental , Argumentation , Argumentative , Argued , Arguing . * See Lesson 7th , on the use of the case absolute , to avoid the repe- tition of and . EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE . Divide , Care , Improve , ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 27.
... , Argumental , Argumentation , Argumentative , Argued , Arguing . * See Lesson 7th , on the use of the case absolute , to avoid the repe- tition of and . EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE . Divide , Care , Improve , ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 27.
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... avoided . When the tautology is in a word , it may be corrected by substituting a word of similar meaning ; but when it consists in the idea , it should be wholly omitted . MODEL . He went to Liverpool in the packet and then went to ...
... avoided . When the tautology is in a word , it may be corrected by substituting a word of similar meaning ; but when it consists in the idea , it should be wholly omitted . MODEL . He went to Liverpool in the packet and then went to ...
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... avoiding all such as will raise in the mind disagreeable , mean , or low ideas . 3. Every metaphor should be founded on a resemblance which is clear and striking ; not far fetched , nor difficult to be discovered . 4. Metaphorical and ...
... avoiding all such as will raise in the mind disagreeable , mean , or low ideas . 3. Every metaphor should be founded on a resemblance which is clear and striking ; not far fetched , nor difficult to be discovered . 4. Metaphorical and ...
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Page 30 - 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.
Page 31 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 30 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.
Page 54 - Yet, fair as thou art, thou shunnest to glide, Beautiful stream! by the village side; But windest away from haunts of men, To quiet valley and shaded glen ; And forest, and meadow, and slope of hill, Around thee, are lonely, lovely, and still.
Page 59 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 30 - Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Page 10 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Page 42 - My lord," said Pythias, with a firm voice and noble aspect, "I would it were possible that I might suffer a thousand deaths, rather than my friend should fail in any article of his honour. He cannot fail therein, my lord. I am as confident of his virtue, as I am of my own existence. — But I pray, I beseech the gods, to preserve the life and integrity of my Damon together.
Page 48 - To soar. Hail to the morn, when first they stood On Bunker's height, And, fearless, stemmed the invading flood, And wrote our dearest rights in blood, And mowed in ranks the Hireling brood, In desperate fight!
Page 60 - It is not fit that the land of the Pilgrims should bear the shame longer. I hear the sound of the hammer, I see the smoke of the furnaces where manacles and fetters are still forged for human limbs. I see the visages of those, who by stealth, and at midnight, labor in this work of hell, foul and dark, as may become the artificers of such instruments of misery and torture.