A Second Manual of Composition: Designed for Secondary SchoolsMacmillan, 1900 - 579 pages |
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A Second Manual of Composition: Designed for Secondary Schools Edwin Herbert Lewis No preview available - 2015 |
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aloud the following American argument Bearcamp Bearcamp Water beautiful better called cause character clauses clear coherent colloquial color composition dependent clauses effect ellipsis emphasis emphatic English EXERCISE exposition expression eyes fact feel feet fish five themes GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS give H. C. POTTER Helvellyn HENRY JAMES HENRY WALLACE horse important kind lake language Latin less light literary usage live look Main Division matter means ment merely mind Montevarchi nature never North of Bearcamp objects Oral outline paragraph periodic sentence person phrase pleonasm principle Read aloud reader relative clause seems sense side slang sometimes speak statement story student taste tell tences things thought tion topics trees trope unity verb vulgar W. D. Howells whole words writing Written young Youth's Companion
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Page 181 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
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Page 350 - And, therefore, first of all, I tell you earnestly and authoritatively (I know I am right in this), you must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable - nay, letter by letter.
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