The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1882 - 220 sayfa |
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Sayfa 19
... truths which we do not comprehend . " " Apprehend , " says Crabb , " expresses the weakest kind of belief , the having [ of ] the least idea of the presence of a thing . " Apt . Often misused for likely , and sometimes for liable ...
... truths which we do not comprehend . " " Apprehend , " says Crabb , " expresses the weakest kind of belief , the having [ of ] the least idea of the presence of a thing . " Apt . Often misused for likely , and sometimes for liable ...
Sayfa 49
... truth , and , therefore , it will be only to the glory of God . " This astonishingly slipshod bit of composition is from the pen of the Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight . If the learned Professor of Divinity in Yale College deemed it worth while ...
... truth , and , therefore , it will be only to the glory of God . " This astonishingly slipshod bit of composition is from the pen of the Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight . If the learned Professor of Divinity in Yale College deemed it worth while ...
Sayfa 76
... truth will find a place to break through . Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us ; but simplicity and straightforwardness Write much as you would speak ; speak as you think . If with your inferiors , speak no coarser ...
... truth will find a place to break through . Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us ; but simplicity and straightforwardness Write much as you would speak ; speak as you think . If with your inferiors , speak no coarser ...
Sayfa 78
... truth , the foundation of all excellence of style . " - Hall . 66 ' A young writer is afraid to be simple ; he has no faith in beauty unadorned , hence he crowds his sentences with superlatives . In his estimation , turgidity passes for ...
... truth , the foundation of all excellence of style . " - Hall . 66 ' A young writer is afraid to be simple ; he has no faith in beauty unadorned , hence he crowds his sentences with superlatives . In his estimation , turgidity passes for ...
Sayfa 80
... truth , more than is really in- tended to be represented , by which a thing is represented greater or less , better or worse than it really is , is said to be hyperbolical . Hyperbole is exaggeration . Our common forms of compliment are ...
... truth , more than is really in- tended to be represented , by which a thing is represented greater or less , better or worse than it really is , is said to be hyperbolical . Hyperbole is exaggeration . Our common forms of compliment are ...
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Sayfa 113 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Sayfa 160 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Sayfa 187 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Sayfa 141 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Sayfa 183 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Sayfa 127 - I cannot tell, what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I m,yself.
Sayfa 186 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Sayfa 163 - ... and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain ? O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth ! \Exit.
Sayfa 164 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whispered promised pleasure And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Sayfa 140 - Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.