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 |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 14
Sivu viii
... progress , and , after all , proceeds under every disadvantage arising from the want of an early and practical knowledge of first principles . Neither the size nor the design of an elementary volume , will admit a full statement of the ...
... progress , and , after all , proceeds under every disadvantage arising from the want of an early and practical knowledge of first principles . Neither the size nor the design of an elementary volume , will admit a full statement of the ...
Sivu ix
... progress . Most books on this subject , have passed but very slightly over the wide field lying between the rules and principles of rhetoric , and the exercise of composing . Now this is the very ground on which a beginner finds that ...
... progress . Most books on this subject , have passed but very slightly over the wide field lying between the rules and principles of rhetoric , and the exercise of composing . Now this is the very ground on which a beginner finds that ...
Sivu x
... progress of the student . In the Appendix will be found a few practical instructions , regarding the formation and the correction of style . New - Township Academy , New - Haven , April , 1823 . WM . RUSSELL . } This work will be ...
... progress of the student . In the Appendix will be found a few practical instructions , regarding the formation and the correction of style . New - Township Academy , New - Haven , April , 1823 . WM . RUSSELL . } This work will be ...
Sivu xiv
... progress must not be hurried . He should not be re- quired to make an effort beyond his ability . His first exercises should be perfectly easy . Greater exertions may be gradually required as he advances , until he is left entirely to ...
... progress must not be hurried . He should not be re- quired to make an effort beyond his ability . His first exercises should be perfectly easy . Greater exertions may be gradually required as he advances , until he is left entirely to ...
Sivu 65
... progress intelligible and interesting , and insen- sibly prepare his mind for the business of composing . These exercises are also suggested as a useful and pleasing relaxation from severer study , to those who have left the business of ...
... progress intelligible and interesting , and insen- sibly prepare his mind for the business of composing . These exercises are also suggested as a useful and pleasing relaxation from severer study , to those who have left the business of ...
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
A Grammar of Composition: Including a Practical Review of the Principles of ... William Russell Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2017 |
A Grammar of Composition: Including a Practical Review of the Principles of ... William Russell Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2019 |
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
accuracy adjective adverbs ancient animal architecture arrangement Astronomy Athenians beauty character clause clear comma complex theme composing Composite order consists contained correct course of composition Darius Demosthenes didactic earth effect effeminacy Egypt eloquence Epicurus exer exercises exertions figure FIGURES OF SPEECH give globe grandeur Greece Hellespont human hyphen ideas illustrate imagination implies impression improve the mind inserted instance intelligent ject language laws light Macedon manner meaning ment metaphor method mountains nature ness never noun objects observed ornament particles passions peace Persepolis Persians piece plain pleasure practice preceding principles produce propriety Punctuation pupil quired racter reflected resemblance rhetoric rule satrap sentence signifies to show simple theme simplicity sion Socrates soul sovereign strength sublime surface synonymes teacher tence thing thought tion topics truth verb virtue whilst whole words and phrases writing Xerxes youth Zoroaster
Suositut otteet
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.