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... common words from.books . The words used in good books are more choice and correct , and more numerous than are heard except from the best speakers . 12. The Number of Words in Use . - The number of words heard and understood by ...
... common words from.books . The words used in good books are more choice and correct , and more numerous than are heard except from the best speakers . 12. The Number of Words in Use . - The number of words heard and understood by ...
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... common objects have short names . The most highly educated persons , as well as others , employ them . Therefore , if properly and skillfully used in SHORT WORDS . 31 oratory , poetry , or ordinary 30 RHETORIC . Short and expressive Words.
... common objects have short names . The most highly educated persons , as well as others , employ them . Therefore , if properly and skillfully used in SHORT WORDS . 31 oratory , poetry , or ordinary 30 RHETORIC . Short and expressive Words.
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... common and col- loquial terms : " Gentlemen , I can not conclude without expressing the deepest regret at all attacks upon the Christian religion by authors who pro- fess to promote the civil liberties of the world . For under what ...
... common and col- loquial terms : " Gentlemen , I can not conclude without expressing the deepest regret at all attacks upon the Christian religion by authors who pro- fess to promote the civil liberties of the world . For under what ...
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... now either obsolete or not common . They are , " had need have " for needs to have , " confer " for converse , ' cunning " for skill , " that " for that which or what . COMMAND OF A VOCABULARY . 47 This illustrates the changes 46 RHETORIC .
... now either obsolete or not common . They are , " had need have " for needs to have , " confer " for converse , ' cunning " for skill , " that " for that which or what . COMMAND OF A VOCABULARY . 47 This illustrates the changes 46 RHETORIC .
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... common and unsuggestive ; but you want one whose every word is full freighted with suggestions and associations , with beauty and power . " * The last suggestion will be felt by every good student . A stream can not rise higher than the ...
... common and unsuggestive ; but you want one whose every word is full freighted with suggestions and associations , with beauty and power . " * The last suggestion will be felt by every good student . A stream can not rise higher than the ...
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abound Allegory allusions ancient Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon language antith antithesis Arachne beautiful become Bible called CHAPTER character Cicero common comparison composition cultivated Daniel Webster Demosthenes described effect Elocution eloquent emotion employed English language essay exercise expression fact fancy feeling figure of speech frequently give Greek guage hearer heaven Hyperbole idea illustrate impression instance Invention Irony kind Latin learned literally living long sentences meaning metaphor metonymy mind modern moral narrative nature never number of words object observe orator oratory original PARONOMASIA passion person Personification perspicuity poem poet Poetry practice present productions proverb Quintilian Ralph Waldo Emerson Rhetoric Rufus Choate says sense Shakspeare signification sometimes soul sound speak speaker specimens student style SYNECDOCHES taste tence thee thing thou thought tion tropes truth uttered verse voice Webster write written
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Page 46 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 31 - And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country ; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat : and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger ! I will arise and go to my father...
Page 298 - Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Page 295 - THERE is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll!
Page 210 - God's name, let it go : I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an alms-man's gown, My...
Page 293 - I will bless the Lord at all times : His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 0 magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.
Page 165 - Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace.
Page 294 - THOU art, O God ! the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.
Page 325 - Rufus; the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty Kings; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers; the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 80 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.