Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and VerseHarper & Brothers, 1845 - 429 pages |
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... laws , to which all the departments of English Composition should be subjected . Genius cannot be fettered , and an original and thinking mind , replete with its own exuberance , will often burst out in spontaneous gushings , and open ...
... laws , to which all the departments of English Composition should be subjected . Genius cannot be fettered , and an original and thinking mind , replete with its own exuberance , will often burst out in spontaneous gushings , and open ...
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... law arises security ; from security , inqay ; from inquiry , knowledge . " 6. Nouns in apposition , accompanied by explanatory words or phrases , are separated by commas ; but if such nouns are single , or only form a proper name , they ...
... law arises security ; from security , inqay ; from inquiry , knowledge . " 6. Nouns in apposition , accompanied by explanatory words or phrases , are separated by commas ; but if such nouns are single , or only form a proper name , they ...
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... which denotes a section seems to be made of ss , and to be an abbreviation of the words signum sectionis , the sign of the section Climate soil laws custom food and other accidental differences have 32 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... which denotes a section seems to be made of ss , and to be an abbreviation of the words signum sectionis , the sign of the section Climate soil laws custom food and other accidental differences have 32 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... laws custom food and other accidental differences have produced an astonishing variety in the complexion features manners and faculties of the human race . In our epistolary correspondence we may advise dissuade exhort re- quest ...
... laws custom food and other accidental differences have produced an astonishing variety in the complexion features manners and faculties of the human race . In our epistolary correspondence we may advise dissuade exhort re- quest ...
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... Law . Answer . Mercy . Stand . Author . Aspire . Art . Run . Contract . Pride . Care . Ply . Present . Blame . Need . Range . Attend . Bless . Fear . Create . Moderate . Caprice . Shame . Pose . Virtue . Censure . Respect . Graphic ...
... Law . Answer . Mercy . Stand . Author . Aspire . Art . Run . Contract . Pride . Care . Ply . Present . Blame . Need . Range . Attend . Bless . Fear . Create . Moderate . Caprice . Shame . Pose . Virtue . Censure . Respect . Graphic ...
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accent acute accent adverb Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochee truth verse virtue words writer written young