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... mind of the writer in order to have clearness of expression ? Upon what then does clearness chiefly depend ? Why do so many school recitations lack in clearness ? What are the causes of the " I - know - but - I - can't - tell " disease ...
... mind of the writer in order to have clearness of expression ? Upon what then does clearness chiefly depend ? Why do so many school recitations lack in clearness ? What are the causes of the " I - know - but - I - can't - tell " disease ...
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... mind . 3. James and John are both good writers , and they seldom ever make mistakes in spelling . Verbosity . This error is called verbosity . Note the derivation of the word . Is the fault well named ? What is the opposite of verbosity ...
... mind . 3. James and John are both good writers , and they seldom ever make mistakes in spelling . Verbosity . This error is called verbosity . Note the derivation of the word . Is the fault well named ? What is the opposite of verbosity ...
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... mind of its freshness and blunt its capacity . 4. The Frenchmen were recompensed for their losses by the king , though the pirates who had overcome them were not pun- ished as they should have been , in consideration of the dire dis ...
... mind of its freshness and blunt its capacity . 4. The Frenchmen were recompensed for their losses by the king , though the pirates who had overcome them were not pun- ished as they should have been , in consideration of the dire dis ...
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... minds , and the direction which this spirit takes , it will not be amiss to lay open somewhat largely . First , the people of the Colonies are descendants of English- men . England , Sir , is a nation which still , I hope , respects ...
... minds , and the direction which this spirit takes , it will not be amiss to lay open somewhat largely . First , the people of the Colonies are descendants of English- men . England , Sir , is a nation which still , I hope , respects ...
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... mind to severe thinking , and the heart to right feeling , prepares the way for perspicuous utterance.— JOHN BASCOM . A little racy slang may well be used in the course of one's daily talk ; it sometimes expresses that which would ...
... mind to severe thinking , and the heart to right feeling , prepares the way for perspicuous utterance.— JOHN BASCOM . A little racy slang may well be used in the course of one's daily talk ; it sometimes expresses that which would ...
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Page 95 - I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river ; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Page 127 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 117 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 248 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 249 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Page 89 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — "The foe, they come! they come!" And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering
Page 97 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Page 94 - We could guess it all by yon heifer's lowing: And hark! how clear bold Chanticleer, Warmed with the new wine of the year, Tells all in his lusty crowing ! Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
Page 127 - SWEET and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me ; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon ; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon ; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon : Sleep, my little one, sleep,...
Page 289 - Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow : And ere the early bedtime came The white drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts.