A Grammar of Composition: Including a Practical Review of the Principles of Rhetoric, a Series of Exercises in Rhetorical Analysis, and Six Introductory Courses of CompositionA.H. Maltby and Company, 1823 - 150 sivua |
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Sivu xviii
... ELOQUENCE ib . ib . 52 53 ib . ib . IDEAS 54 • CLASSIFICATION OF PIECES ib . PART II . ANALYSIS CRITICISM Subject exemplifying analysis and criticism ANALYSIS EXEMPLIFIED Parsing . Punctuation Transposition Synonymes Definition ...
... ELOQUENCE ib . ib . 52 53 ib . ib . IDEAS 54 • CLASSIFICATION OF PIECES ib . PART II . ANALYSIS CRITICISM Subject exemplifying analysis and criticism ANALYSIS EXEMPLIFIED Parsing . Punctuation Transposition Synonymes Definition ...
Sivu 53
... ELOQUENCE . THIS term is applied to language as adapted to thought . It regards nothing in our expressions but their mere fitness to become the vehicles of the thoughts which we would impart : it may be correctly regarded , as nothing ...
... ELOQUENCE . THIS term is applied to language as adapted to thought . It regards nothing in our expressions but their mere fitness to become the vehicles of the thoughts which we would impart : it may be correctly regarded , as nothing ...
Sivu 54
... eloquence . V. IDEAS . COMPOSITION regards the strain of our ideas , as possessed of one or all of the following qualities : 1. Vivacity . 2. Beauty . 3. Sublimity . applied here . The use made of these terms in the remarks on style ...
... eloquence . V. IDEAS . COMPOSITION regards the strain of our ideas , as possessed of one or all of the following qualities : 1. Vivacity . 2. Beauty . 3. Sublimity . applied here . The use made of these terms in the remarks on style ...
Sivu 55
... eloquence , ideas ; 2. The general character of the choice of words , of the structure , style , eloquence , ideas ; 3. The peculiarities of the author ; 4. The prominent beauties of thought and expres- sion . PART II ANALYSIS.
... eloquence , ideas ; 2. The general character of the choice of words , of the structure , style , eloquence , ideas ; 3. The peculiarities of the author ; 4. The prominent beauties of thought and expres- sion . PART II ANALYSIS.
Sivu 62
... eloquence and ideas of this piece there is no- thing defective . 2. General character of the choice of words , of the structure , style , eloquence , ideas . — The expressions are generally selected so as not to violate the rules of ...
... eloquence and ideas of this piece there is no- thing defective . 2. General character of the choice of words , of the structure , style , eloquence , ideas . — The expressions are generally selected so as not to violate the rules of ...
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Sivu 89 - It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. "The insect youth are on the wing.
Sivu 89 - A bee amongst the flowers in spring is one of the most cheerful objects that can be looked upon. Its life appears to be all enjoyment, so busy and so pleased ; yet it is only a specimen of insect life, with which, by reason of the animal being half domesticated, we happen to be better acquainted than we are with that of others.
Sivu 114 - How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created...
Sivu 111 - He who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows out that plan, carries on a thread which will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of light, which darts itself through all his affairs. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal...
Sivu 115 - ... with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity ; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge : carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man. Nay, it must be a prospect pleasing to God himself, to see his creation forever beautifying in his eyes, and drawing nearer to him, by greater degrees of resemblance.
Sivu vi - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Sivu 124 - We never get amongst such original or totally different modes of existence as to indicate that we are come into the province of a different Creator, or under the direction of a different will.
Sivu 115 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Sivu 56 - HAVING already shown how the fancy is affected by the works of nature, and afterwards considered in general both the works of nature and of art, how they mutually assist and complete each other...
Sivu 115 - But can we believe a thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries ? A man, considered in his present state, seems only sent into the world to propagate his kind.