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 sider |
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... individuals , in any station of life , to whom ease and fluency in writing are not valuable acquisitions . Ali who are engaged in professional or commercial pursuits , and even the hardier sons of labor , whose " bread is procured by ...
... individuals , in any station of life , to whom ease and fluency in writing are not valuable acquisitions . Ali who are engaged in professional or commercial pursuits , and even the hardier sons of labor , whose " bread is procured by ...
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... vanquish , subdue , overcome , and surmount . Conquer signifies to seek or try to gain an object vanquish implies the binding of an individual ; subdus siguifies to give or put under ; overcome expresses the 42 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... vanquish , subdue , overcome , and surmount . Conquer signifies to seek or try to gain an object vanquish implies the binding of an individual ; subdus siguifies to give or put under ; overcome expresses the 42 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... individuals resort thither for the benefit of their salubrity . The places destined for the education of youth should be ... individual should be lavish of what is sot his own , nor prodigal of what he gives another . There are but few ...
... individuals resort thither for the benefit of their salubrity . The places destined for the education of youth should be ... individual should be lavish of what is sot his own , nor prodigal of what he gives another . There are but few ...
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... individual persons , they are not called by their proper names , but by their office , or some other designating appellation . Thus , in speaking of Washington , the orator designates him , by antonomasia , as " the sage of Mount Vernon ...
... individual persons , they are not called by their proper names , but by their office , or some other designating appellation . Thus , in speaking of Washington , the orator designates him , by antonomasia , as " the sage of Mount Vernon ...
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... individual thing to be defined is distinguished from other individuals of the same class . Thus , if a definition is required of the word justice , we may commence by saying , " Justice is that virtue which induces us to give every one ...
... individual thing to be defined is distinguished from other individuals of the same class . Thus , if a definition is required of the word justice , we may commence by saying , " Justice is that virtue which induces us to give every one ...
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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