A Guide to English Composition, Or One Hundred and Twenty Subjects Analysed ...C.S. Francis and Company, 1854 |
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... hand it is placed . I. WITH THE VERY YOUNG . If placed in the hands of very young children , just able to write , the plan of proceeding might be somewhat after the fol- lowing suggestions : -Let two or more of them be called up by ...
... hand it is placed . I. WITH THE VERY YOUNG . If placed in the hands of very young children , just able to write , the plan of proceeding might be somewhat after the fol- lowing suggestions : -Let two or more of them be called up by ...
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... hands of the writer ; and it will not be needful for the mas- ter to trouble himself by any interference , but simply to ex- amine the production after it is completed . N. B. Certain contions have been suggested on page 184 , which ...
... hands of the writer ; and it will not be needful for the mas- ter to trouble himself by any interference , but simply to ex- amine the production after it is completed . N. B. Certain contions have been suggested on page 184 , which ...
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... Hand is worth Two in the Bush CLIV . The Race is not to the Swift · - 404 ib . CLV . The Laziest People take the most Trouble CLVI . The Burnt Child dreads Fire ib . 405 CLVII . There is a Tide in the Affairs of Men ib . CLVIII . Many a ...
... Hand is worth Two in the Bush CLIV . The Race is not to the Swift · - 404 ib . CLV . The Laziest People take the most Trouble CLVI . The Burnt Child dreads Fire ib . 405 CLVII . There is a Tide in the Affairs of Men ib . CLVIII . Many a ...
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... hand , avails himself of all the appliances which reflection and skill can suggest . The former would attempt to push " his mountains " into the sea by his hands and shoulders ; the latter would remove them gradually by his spade and ...
... hand , avails himself of all the appliances which reflection and skill can suggest . The former would attempt to push " his mountains " into the sea by his hands and shoulders ; the latter would remove them gradually by his spade and ...
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... hand simultaneously , much loss of time must be incurred in going from one to the other , and in making the changes requisite for the different occupations . 3RD REASON .- " Dispatch is the soul of business , " says the proverb ; but ...
... hand simultaneously , much loss of time must be incurred in going from one to the other , and in making the changes requisite for the different occupations . 3RD REASON .- " Dispatch is the soul of business , " says the proverb ; but ...
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1ST REASON 2ND REASON 3RD REASON 4TH REASON action ancient beautiful better blessed body Catiline cheerful Cicero classical companions CONCLUSION conscience contented corrupted cultivation danger death deceived Deioces delight disease doth dress earth employment evil excite exercise fable Faliscans favour fear feel fire folly fool foolish give gold Greek habit hand happiness hath heart HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS honest honour idle INTRODUCTION judgment Julius Cæsar king labour living Lord Bacon man's ment mental Milo of Crotona mind moral Nabal nature never nihil pain passions person pleasure pride Prov proverbs punishment quæ quam QUOTATIONS REASON.-A REASON.-Every REASON.-It REASON.-The rich righteous Romans salt Samnites says Shakspeare Siculi SIMILES sorrow soul spirit suffered sweet taste temper thee THEME things thou shalt thought tree Trojan war truth unto vice Virgil virtue whole wicked wisdom wise words
Popular passages
Page 369 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 198 - Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Page 369 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 330 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Page 273 - For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 82 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 98 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : 15 "Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Page 240 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Page 179 - From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 394 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...