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... recog- nition of a hearer . Hence , its rules are not absolute , like those of logic , but relative to the character and circum- stances of the person or persons addressed ; for though truth is one , and correct reasoning must always be.
... recog- nition of a hearer . Hence , its rules are not absolute , like those of logic , but relative to the character and circum- stances of the person or persons addressed ; for though truth is one , and correct reasoning must always be.
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... rule and con- dition is , not to attempt to express ourselves in language before we thoroughly know our own meaning . ” Part I. of this treatise discusses and illustrates the general principles which apply to written or spoken dis ...
... rule and con- dition is , not to attempt to express ourselves in language before we thoroughly know our own meaning . ” Part I. of this treatise discusses and illustrates the general principles which apply to written or spoken dis ...
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... rule of all writing — that rule to which every other is subordinate — is that the words used by the writer shall be such as most fully and precisely convey his meaning to the great body of his readers . All considerations about the ...
... rule of all writing — that rule to which every other is subordinate — is that the words used by the writer shall be such as most fully and precisely convey his meaning to the great body of his readers . All considerations about the ...
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... rule can be laid down . It is too much to say that national use prohibits every foreign word or phrase for which there is an English equivalent ; but there can be no doubt that such words should be used sparingly . Sometimes good taste ...
... rule can be laid down . It is too much to say that national use prohibits every foreign word or phrase for which there is an English equivalent ; but there can be no doubt that such words should be used sparingly . Sometimes good taste ...
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... rule , it may be neglected . Regard , in short , should be paid not to the letter but to the spirit . I. Of two forms of expression which may be used in The rule of the same sense , that one should be chosen precision . which , in the ...
... rule , it may be neglected . Regard , in short , should be paid not to the letter but to the spirit . I. Of two forms of expression which may be used in The rule of the same sense , that one should be chosen precision . which , in the ...
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Page 61 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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.
Page 152 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
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 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 78 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand.
Page 171 - I crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a certain use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about: For there I picked up on the heather, And there I put inside my breast A moulted feather, an eagle-feather ! Well, I forget the rest.
Page 219 - 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. Behold, how altered ! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your feet ; but all else, how changed...
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.