Essays: Moral, Political and AestheticD. Appleton and Company, 1871 - 418 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 11 - Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced. In either case, whatever force is absorbed by the machine is deducted from the result.
الصفحة 24 - In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold: Or as a thief bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors...
الصفحة 15 - As we do not think in generals but in particulars — as, whenever any class of things is referred to, we represent it to ourselves by calling to mind individual members of it; it follows that when an abstract word is used, the hearer or reader has to choose from his stock of images, one or more, by which he may figure to himself the genus mentioned.
الصفحة 32 - We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather.
الصفحة 344 - And the truth is, in the second place, that a banker will not, on the average of cases, issue more notes than in his judgment it is safe to issue ; seeing that if his promises-to-pay in circulation, are...
الصفحة 42 - After describing the way in which Burns was sacrificed to the idle curiosity of Lion-hunters — people who came not out of sympathy but merely to see him — people who sought a little amusement, and who got their amusement while " the Hero's life went for it !" Carlyle suggests a parallel thus : " Richter says, in the Island of Sumatra there is a kind of ' Light-chafers,' large Fire-flies, which people stick upon spits, and illuminate the ways with at night.
الصفحة 33 - The advantage sometimes gained by putting a part for the whole, is due to the more convenient, or more accurate, presentation of the idea. If, instead of saying
الصفحة 9 - ... rules." Similarly, there can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless. He who daily hears and reads well-framed sentences, will naturally more or less tend to use similar ones.
الصفحة 19 - And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony." Of course the principle equally applies when the predicate is a verb or a participle. And as effect is gained by placing first all words indicating the quality, conduct, or condition of the subject, it follows that the copula also should have precedence. It is true that the general habit of our language resists this arrangement of predicate, copula, and subject; but we may readily find instances of the additional force gained by conforming to it....