The elements of compositionA. Roman & Company, 1867 |
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... ment a strict duty , as well as gives it a full right of exercising over the same a constant watchful care . 9. In order , then , to cherish and promote still further a system so full of vigor and life , the present work has been ...
... ment a strict duty , as well as gives it a full right of exercising over the same a constant watchful care . 9. In order , then , to cherish and promote still further a system so full of vigor and life , the present work has been ...
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... ment you make , cite a Rule if you can . LIFE IS REAL . Tell me ( a ) not in mournful numbers , 2 Life is but an empty dream ! 3 For the soul is dead that slumbers , * And things are not what they seem . 5 Life is real ! Life is earnest ...
... ment you make , cite a Rule if you can . LIFE IS REAL . Tell me ( a ) not in mournful numbers , 2 Life is but an empty dream ! 3 For the soul is dead that slumbers , * And things are not what they seem . 5 Life is real ! Life is earnest ...
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... I had known you before . " Q. Which are Obsecrative sentences ? ( 7. ) A. Those that beseech or implore ; as , " Pray , forgive me ! " 8. Sentences that express a positive judg- ment of the SENTENCES WHICH EXPRESS AN EMOTION . 37.
... I had known you before . " Q. Which are Obsecrative sentences ? ( 7. ) A. Those that beseech or implore ; as , " Pray , forgive me ! " 8. Sentences that express a positive judg- ment of the SENTENCES WHICH EXPRESS AN EMOTION . 37.
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... ment of the mind are of three classes : as , I. Interrogative , whereby something is asked ; Have you seen Edward ? " แ II . Potential , whereby the possibility of a thing is expressed ; as , " It may rain . " III . Conditional , which ...
... ment of the mind are of three classes : as , I. Interrogative , whereby something is asked ; Have you seen Edward ? " แ II . Potential , whereby the possibility of a thing is expressed ; as , " It may rain . " III . Conditional , which ...
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... ment of the parts and words of a sentence . Of these two qualities we shall more appropriately speak in the next chapter . These qualities are amply treated of in grammars of all languages , and to them we must refer the learner . A. It ...
... ment of the parts and words of a sentence . Of these two qualities we shall more appropriately speak in the next chapter . These qualities are amply treated of in grammars of all languages , and to them we must refer the learner . A. It ...
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accent active-transitive acute accent adjuncts affirmed or denied AMPLIFICATION OF IDEAS AMPLIFICATION OF WORDS apodosis arrangement and government ARTICLE ASSERTION.-The avocations of peace beautiful Belles-Lettres Chapter Cicero circumflex accent circumlocution Class.-When classes of combinations clause collocation comprises connected copula definition ELEMENTS OF COMPOSITION ellipsis EXAMPLE exclamation EXERCISE express finite verb form complete sense Form compound sentences fourth grammatical subject grave accent Hence I.-EXERCISE inflections interrogation ject language LAYRES leading verb literary composition logical and grammatical meaning ment mind mode of combination necessary neuter noun object observed Oratory Orthoepy participles pauses phrases praxis of composition predicate verb preposition PROF protasis pupil reader relative pronoun resumed the avocations sentences and periods sentential analysis similitude simple sentences small numbers soldiers subject and predicate sublime synthesis teacher tence third thou tion transitive verb variety of arrangement variety of government writer or speaker writing
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Seite 111 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Seite 165 - TOOTH. thou art O God the life and light of all this wondrous world we see its glow by day its smile by night are but reflections caught from thee •where'er we turn thy glories shine and all things fair and bright are thine...
Seite 131 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Seite 127 - At even, which I bred up, with tender hand, From the first opening bud, and gave ye names ! Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the...
Seite 144 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course?
Seite 110 - ... no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
Seite 121 - ... inveterate enemy — and ministers do not, and dare not, interpose with dignity or effect. The desperate state of our army abroad is in part known. No man more highly esteems and...
Seite 34 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Seite 131 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Seite 138 - And, before you, see Who have done it! — From the vale On they come ! — and will ye quail ? — Leaden rain and iron hail Let their welcome be ! In the God of battles trust! Die we may — and die we must: — But, O, where can dust to dust...