The King's EnglishClarendon Press, 1908 - 370 Seiten |
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... given roughly in order of merit ; the last is also the least . It is true that it is often given alone , as a sort of compendium of all the others . In some sense it is that : the writer whose percentage of Saxon words is high will ...
... given roughly in order of merit ; the last is also the least . It is true that it is often given alone , as a sort of compendium of all the others . In some sense it is that : the writer whose percentage of Saxon words is high will ...
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... given case only one of them may be possible . We will now proceed to a few examples of how not to write , roughly classified under the five headings , though , after what has been said , it will cause no surprise that most of them might ...
... given case only one of them may be possible . We will now proceed to a few examples of how not to write , roughly classified under the five headings , though , after what has been said , it will cause no surprise that most of them might ...
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... given the construction of the other . A few companies , comprised mainly of militiamen . - Times . ( composed of ? comprising ? ) The Novoe Vremya thinks the Tsar's words will undoubtedly instil the Christians of Macedonia with hope ...
... given the construction of the other . A few companies , comprised mainly of militiamen . - Times . ( composed of ? comprising ? ) The Novoe Vremya thinks the Tsar's words will undoubtedly instil the Christians of Macedonia with hope ...
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... given , may have been reconsidered . — Times . ( if indeed ... was ) There is no stipulation ; it is only a question of past fact . What will the War Council at the capital decide provided the war is to continue ? ... The longer ...
... given , may have been reconsidered . — Times . ( if indeed ... was ) There is no stipulation ; it is only a question of past fact . What will the War Council at the capital decide provided the war is to continue ? ... The longer ...
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... given the wrong meaning of make , and in the last the equally wrong one of endure . A writer with a story to tell that is not very fresh usually ekes it out by referring as much as possible to surrounding objects . - H . JAMES . She had ...
... given the wrong meaning of make , and in the last the equally wrong one of endure . A writer with a story to tell that is not very fresh usually ekes it out by referring as much as possible to surrounding objects . - H . JAMES . She had ...
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Seite 305 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Seite 237 - Philosophers assert, that Nature is unlimited in her operations; that she has inexhaustible treasures in reserve; that knowledge will always be progressive ; and that all future generations will continue to make discoveries, of which we have not the least idea.
Seite 62 - All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.
Seite 295 - ... unimpassioned rock, they share also its endurance ; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip-gold, — far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest, starlike, on the stone ; and the gathering orange stain upon the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years.
Seite 163 - I do not think, Sir, that the reason of this averseness in the dissenting churches from all that looks like absolute government is so much to be sought in their religious tenets, as in their history.
Seite 232 - Thus, their work, however imperfect and faulty, judged by modern lights, it may have been, brought them face to face with all the leading aspects of the many-sided mind of man. For these studies did really contain, at any rate in embryo — sometimes, it may be, in caricature — what we now call Philosophy, Mathematical and Physical Science, and Art.
Seite 295 - ... bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!
Seite 142 - ... where our sympathy is most wanted — in the distresses of others. If this passion was simply painful, we would shun with the greatest care all persons and places that could excite such a passion, as some, who are so far gone in indolence as not to endure any strong impression, actually do. But the case is widely different with the greater part of mankind; there is no spectacle we so eagerly pursue as that of some uncommon and grievous calamity; so that whether the misfortune is before...
Seite 305 - To act in safety. There is none but he Whose being I do fear: and under him My Genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.