The Essentials of English Composition and RhetoricD. C. Heath & Company, 1913 - 388 strani |
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adjective adverb arrangement beginning central thought clear Coherence comma common conjunction connection construction contain coördinate clauses correct definite dependent clause dictionary division emphasis English English language exercise experience exposition expression fact familiar father fault following sentences frequently gerund give given grammar ideas idiom illustrate important interest language letter literature logical means method Mifflin & Company mountain natural necessary noun one's paragraph theme paragraph-topic participle periodic sentences person practical principle of Unity principles of Composition pronoun purpose R. L. Stevenson railroad reader refer relation relative clause relative pronoun Rhetoric rules sense short single solecisms space stand story student teacher tences things tion topic topic-sentence town trees unity of thought usually verb violated vocabulary vulgar W. D. HOWELLS whole Wireless Telegraphy writing written YOSEMITE VALLEY
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Stran 51 - But the father said to his servants, 'Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat and be merry. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost and is found.
Stran 331 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Stran 118 - ... The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war ; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions ; or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex' government. It is simple peace ; sought in its natural course, and in its ordinary haunts. — It is peace sought...
Stran 78 - And he said unto him ; Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again ; and was lost, and is found.
Stran 51 - And he said ; a certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father ; Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
Stran 118 - It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of peace, and laid in principles purely pacific. I propose, by removing the ground of the difference, and by restoring the former unsuspecting confidence of the colonies in the mother country, to give permanent satisfaction to your people, — and (far from a scheme of ruling by discord) to reconcile them to each other in the same act and by the bond of the very same interest which reconciles...
Stran 62 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources: of descent, of form of government, of religion in the northern provinces, of manners in the southern, of education, of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.
Stran 234 - Those who roused the people to resistance, who directed their measures through a long series of eventful years, who formed, out of the most unpromising materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen, who trampled down King, Church, and Aristocracy, who, in the short intervals of domestic sedition and rebellion, made the name of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics.
Stran 52 - Now his elder son was in the field ; and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.
Stran 123 - It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with highridged, but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers ; the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river.