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... begin " to commence ( " Things never began with Mr. Borthrop Trumbull : they always commenced both in private life and on his handbills " 2 ) ; " photographer " to photographist , and the like ; " trustworthy " to reliable3 ( where ...
... begin " to commence ( " Things never began with Mr. Borthrop Trumbull : they always commenced both in private life and on his handbills " 2 ) ; " photographer " to photographist , and the like ; " trustworthy " to reliable3 ( where ...
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... begin his magnum opus . And so he carries us through his story , running off into hackneyed French , Italian , or Latin expressions whenever he has any thing to say which he thinks should be graphically or emphatically said . It really ...
... begin his magnum opus . And so he carries us through his story , running off into hackneyed French , Italian , or Latin expressions whenever he has any thing to say which he thinks should be graphically or emphatically said . It really ...
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... begin with and or but ; for , if nothing comes before the conjunction , there is nothing for it to connect with what comes after : and a paragraph should rarely so begin , for a new paragraph indicates that there is a break in the sense ...
... begin with and or but ; for , if nothing comes before the conjunction , there is nothing for it to connect with what comes after : and a paragraph should rarely so begin , for a new paragraph indicates that there is a break in the sense ...
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... begin the paragraph . " The Romans were fortunate in having so many words to ex- press but , another sad stumbling block to us . Our language is much deformed by the necessity of its recurrence ; and I know not any author who has taken ...
... begin the paragraph . " The Romans were fortunate in having so many words to ex- press but , another sad stumbling block to us . Our language is much deformed by the necessity of its recurrence ; and I know not any author who has taken ...
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... begin- ning of the sentence not only brings the principal subject to the front , but also gives superior clearness and force to the antithesis & between the two members of the sentence . Important words should be in emphatic places . V ...
... begin- ning of the sentence not only brings the principal subject to the front , but also gives superior clearness and force to the antithesis & between the two members of the sentence . Important words should be in emphatic places . V ...
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Page 241 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts; I am no orator, as Brutus is; But as you know me all, a plain blunt man. That love my friend: and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood...
Page 29 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 130 - 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 120 - 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 179 - Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day?
Page 209 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Page 258 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand, and my heart, to this vote.
Page 86 - If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith!
Page 150 - As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills, so towards each other approached the heroes. As two dark streams from high rocks meet and mix, and roar on the plain : loud, rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail. ... As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high ; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven ; such is noise of the battle.
Page 269 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections...