A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style: Inferred from Examples of Writing : to which is Added a Historical Dissertation of English StyleIvison & Phinney, 1854 - 311 من الصفحات |
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... lived in past ages , and of those now existing . To illustrate these remarks , I may refer the student to the statue of Washington , which has been recently placed in the metropolis of New England , and which represents him in the ...
... lived in past ages , and of those now existing . To illustrate these remarks , I may refer the student to the statue of Washington , which has been recently placed in the metropolis of New England , and which represents him in the ...
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... lived a wanderer and a fugitive in his native land , and went down , like a lonely bark foundering amid darkness and tempest , without a pitying eye to weep his fall , or a friendly hand to record his struggle . " --- This comparison is ...
... lived a wanderer and a fugitive in his native land , and went down , like a lonely bark foundering amid darkness and tempest , without a pitying eye to weep his fall , or a friendly hand to record his struggle . " --- This comparison is ...
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... lived , as it were , near to nature . With them all is originality . Their thoughts and expressions are their own . With most modern writers it is otherwise . It is often re- marked , that in modern times there are few original ideas ...
... lived , as it were , near to nature . With them all is originality . Their thoughts and expressions are their own . With most modern writers it is otherwise . It is often re- marked , that in modern times there are few original ideas ...
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... lived at the same time , and narrations of other events , be- cause they happened at the same period , is to render a biography tedious and uninteresting . 2. A second direction is , to present a just statement of facts and a fair view ...
... lived at the same time , and narrations of other events , be- cause they happened at the same period , is to render a biography tedious and uninteresting . 2. A second direction is , to present a just statement of facts and a fair view ...
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... lived , - to make itself the theme , and gaze , and wonder , of a dazzled world .--- Next to moral comes intellectual greatness , or genius in the highest sense of that word ; and by this we mean that sublime capacity of thought ...
... lived , - to make itself the theme , and gaze , and wonder , of a dazzled world .--- Next to moral comes intellectual greatness , or genius in the highest sense of that word ; and by this we mean that sublime capacity of thought ...
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