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... persons of high character not only ordinarily and in a general way , but in such matters as do not admit of absolute certainty but necessarily leave room for difference of opinion , without any qualification whatever . ( It is requisite ...
... persons of high character not only ordinarily and in a general way , but in such matters as do not admit of absolute certainty but necessarily leave room for difference of opinion , without any qualification whatever . ( It is requisite ...
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... person ; ( 4 ) a business letter ; and ( 5 ) a petition to a Faculty or some person or persons in authority . Follow in general the forms of the subjoined examples . Notice that in ( A ) the writer uses the conversational language of ...
... person ; ( 4 ) a business letter ; and ( 5 ) a petition to a Faculty or some person or persons in authority . Follow in general the forms of the subjoined examples . Notice that in ( A ) the writer uses the conversational language of ...
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... persons who should know that they are not Eng- lish words , are as absurd as would be to " spas " ( from spasm ) , to " occupate " ( from occupation ) , or to " policemanize . " Another form of the same error consists in using as a verb ...
... persons who should know that they are not Eng- lish words , are as absurd as would be to " spas " ( from spasm ) , to " occupate " ( from occupation ) , or to " policemanize . " Another form of the same error consists in using as a verb ...
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... persons were apparently on a likewise expedition of sight - seeing as I was . Upon looking around me , I saw what a number of college buildings there was . Near the corner of the first building I passed after entering the grounds , I ...
... persons were apparently on a likewise expedition of sight - seeing as I was . Upon looking around me , I saw what a number of college buildings there was . Near the corner of the first building I passed after entering the grounds , I ...
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... person does . I think that one inherits many of his tastes for doing things , and I have not inher- ited a taste for drawing well . Yet I think it is very inter- esting for a person that likes it and can do it well . " 8. " The ...
... person does . I think that one inherits many of his tastes for doing things , and I have not inher- ited a taste for drawing well . Yet I think it is very inter- esting for a person that likes it and can do it well . " 8. " The ...
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Page 75 - JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed: How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags — were they purple, his heart had been proud ! We that had loved him so, followed him...
Page 94 - 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 205 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 208 - Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Page 201 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
Page 70 - Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity ; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair : it is kept all the year long ; it beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity ; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. As is the saying of the wise,
Page 67 - And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone there is tidings in his mouth.
Page 68 - Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for. whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 119 - There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.
Page 117 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, — the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.