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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... learning to think , and that of expressing them properly when obtained . There are those who profess to have been benefited by the assistance therein afforded . In this volume he has en- deavored to embrace a wider range in the ...
... learning to think , and that of expressing them properly when obtained . There are those who profess to have been benefited by the assistance therein afforded . In this volume he has en- deavored to embrace a wider range in the ...
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... learning , though truly commendable , must never be grati- fied beyond a certain limit . It must not be indulged in to the injury of your health , nor to the hindrance of your virtue . What will the fame derived from the most profound ...
... learning , though truly commendable , must never be grati- fied beyond a certain limit . It must not be indulged in to the injury of your health , nor to the hindrance of your virtue . What will the fame derived from the most profound ...
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... learning is said to enlighten the mind , that is , it is to the mind what light is to the eye . enabling it to discover what was hidden before . * Example . Youth and morning resemble each other in many particu lars . Youth is the first ...
... learning is said to enlighten the mind , that is , it is to the mind what light is to the eye . enabling it to discover what was hidden before . * Example . Youth and morning resemble each other in many particu lars . Youth is the first ...
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... learning and accomplishments attainable by one in her situation , then did Rachel recount to her wondering hearers the story of Arthur's adventure with the Highlander . LXII . DESCRIPTION . Description , as defined by Webster , is " a ...
... learning and accomplishments attainable by one in her situation , then did Rachel recount to her wondering hearers the story of Arthur's adventure with the Highlander . LXII . DESCRIPTION . Description , as defined by Webster , is " a ...
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... learning and good sense , who has applied himself , from his earliest youth , to the noblest and most elevating studies : but all the maxims of fortitude which he has received from books , or advanced himself , he now absolutely rejects ...
... learning and good sense , who has applied himself , from his earliest youth , to the noblest and most elevating studies : but all the maxims of fortitude which he has received from books , or advanced himself , he now absolutely rejects ...
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Common terms and phrases
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