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... force have been introduced from other sources . Indeed there seems to have been a great tendency in the formative ages of the English language to reduce long words to shorter and more easily remembered terms . The A large stock of these ...
... force have been introduced from other sources . Indeed there seems to have been a great tendency in the formative ages of the English language to reduce long words to shorter and more easily remembered terms . The A large stock of these ...
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... force , any more than it is to know the origin of grains or fruits in order that they may nourish the body or please the palate . Though the above specimen of composition , " The Prodigal Son , " has less than one hundred and fifty dif ...
... force , any more than it is to know the origin of grains or fruits in order that they may nourish the body or please the palate . Though the above specimen of composition , " The Prodigal Son , " has less than one hundred and fifty dif ...
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... force of thought and speech be mine , And he that will may take the sleek fat phrase , Which glows and burns not , though it gleam and shine- Light , but no heat -- a flash , but not a blaze ! * It may be interesting to note that ...
... force of thought and speech be mine , And he that will may take the sleek fat phrase , Which glows and burns not , though it gleam and shine- Light , but no heat -- a flash , but not a blaze ! * It may be interesting to note that ...
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... force of the composition that , while nearly all of the words are of Anglo - Saxon , or at least Teutonic origin , some are Celtic , and some are Latin , and some Greek . A child never asks the origin of a word that he hears ; but if it ...
... force of the composition that , while nearly all of the words are of Anglo - Saxon , or at least Teutonic origin , some are Celtic , and some are Latin , and some Greek . A child never asks the origin of a word that he hears ; but if it ...
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... FORCE OF SHORT WORDS . 35 pressive words . We give another brief specimen to illustrate the power of words of this kind . EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS BY DANIEL WEBSTER TO SOME AGED SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION . " Venerable men ! You have ...
... FORCE OF SHORT WORDS . 35 pressive words . We give another brief specimen to illustrate the power of words of this kind . EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS BY DANIEL WEBSTER TO SOME AGED SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION . " Venerable men ! You have ...
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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.